You don’t need to believe in aliens. They have not evolved towards a deep-seated need for validation, inventing methods and madness to measure themselves against themselves. They take their time to rearrange themselves for optimal viewing of the universe, so naturally, they found some signal across the universe looking to you as example. A curious and questionable tension. But atoms don’t ask questions, they just test and test and test. You think when the seed bears fruit, you’ve found success. It’s all just peaches and blood and nonsense. In other words, math.