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by privong·5y ago·view on hn ↗
> How would you fix it? "Astronomer finds an exoplanet which fits exclusion criteria if WOW! Signal is intelligent in origin"?

As far as I can tell there's not even evidence of an exoplanet around that star (likely because that star hasn't been searched for evidence of an exoplanet). The arXiv preprint basically amounts to "Identification of a Sun-like star in the same part of the sky where the 'Wow' signal originated."

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> "Identification of a Sun-like star in the same part of the sky where the 'Wow' signal originated."

Even that is clickbaity - it fails to account how likely it was to find such a star in that volume of space.

That would at least offer some analysis of the situation.

> Even that is clickbaity - it fails to account how likely it was to find such a star in that volume of space.

Yeah. I should've been more clear that I was only meaning that as a summary of the article, not as a replacement title.