Dale Hurliman wrote:

Robert J. Kolker wrote:

Erik Max Francis wrote:

SETI is looking for deliberate, unambiguous signals, not accidental
ones.

Like Jodi Foster getting the sequence of primes. There is no way in hell for that to be random noise.

Bob Kolker

   
    We do not know that for sure.  Random (Make that "Prime"; my text

editor is misbehaving again.) numbers seem to be distributed along the number line in a random fashion. And nuclear excited states (energy levels) seem to be distributed somewhat like random numbers. What this all means is not clear at the moment.
    You might like to see _Prime Obsession: Bernard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics_, by John Derbyshire.