Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "The Wow! Signal After 45 Years" video.

What are you talking about? Who sent out one signal? Why would you think that every single civilization in the cosmos sends exactly one signal? That doesn't even begin to make sense in any way. I don't know how confused thinking like this gets over 2k thumbs up. You don't seem to have understood any of the reasoning in the video. If someone wants to signal at all, it doesn't make sense for them to send exactly one signal. And if they would, we wouldn't have detected it. He even adresses that explicitly, one signal being a special case of periodicity.
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@SwrveYT I don't know what you're talking about. Humanity as a civilization isn't trying to send any signals atm. If they did, they'd do it with more than one transmission. If your hypothesis is: there's some civilization somewhere that beaconed literally ONE time and we just happened to pick it up by shere coincidence. Well that's a supremely bespoke, unlikely and unhelpful thing to believe.
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That's similarly unlikely to it not repeating. The aliens don't know when our radio astronomy started to turn on their transmittors just in time...
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>Isn't there a stronger possibility that they have just given up by now? No, there's a greater probability of it not being of extraterrestrial origin. Us just happening to pick up one of the last signals is extremely unlikely, similarly to picking up a signal that's a one-off.
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Ok, but then they have to live with the fact, that almost certainly no one would notice and if they do, they'd reasonably assume it wasn't from another civilization, but a measurement error or interference of their own devices. Simply doesn't make sense to assume that we just happened to pick up a one-time signal by coincidence.
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