John wrote:

"Robert J. Kolker" <bobkolker@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Dale Hurliman wrote:

   We do not know that for sure.  Random 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.

If you recall, in -Contact- the first 1000 primes were repeated over and
over gain. If I got the primes one, that is a long shot. It I get them
several times, that is an artifact producing them.

    Not necessarily. A natural process can repeat many times over.

Even if there were a natural source of primes, it would take an
intelligence to build a device for transmiting the output of that source.

    Think pulsars. A natural source, a rotating neutron star, transmits very precise timing signals.
    Nature is sometimes subtle.

If it sounds intelligent, moves intelligently and smells intelligent, it
is intelligent ---- most likely.

Bob Kolker

Perhaps some weird configuration of orbiting pulsars?