[rimeice]

“six millennia“ doesn’t seem that long on the scale of the universe

[munchler]

The claim is that humans would have to monitor for six millennia to detect a signal like this as a result of random interference/noise. The implication is that the signal is probably real, since humans have been monitoring for much less than 6000 years.

[dghlsakjg]

A random distribution means that you have the same chance of hearing it in year 1 as you do in year 6k, right?

Until there is a second one, there is nothing to statistically distinguish this from random noise.