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Wouldn't it be ludicrously short-sided and unfounded to say it's impossible? This seems like a non-story.
Rather than investigating this story (Which I did read up to a point and then skim) I checked out the website. It strikes me as being somewhere between X-Files, The History Channel, and Popular Science. None of those are complimentary, in my book.
I didn't look at all. The first real story about aliens will be at the top of HN with 2k+ upvotes. This is just noise.
Ah yes the "something is true only if everyone else believes it" fallacy.
What evidence they have?

It's not impossible for my pen to jump and launch itself into my gray matter. Just supremely unlikely.

It seems reasonable to scan whatever high-resolution images we have of the surface of Mars or the Moon with some sort of anomaly detection. You wouldn’t expect to see features such as exact rectangles, for example, unless it’s something unnatural. Or maybe just something natural that we didn’t expect, which is itself interesting. I’m not sure what sort of image analysis would be the best to use here, just to find “something unexpected”....
The article mentions using ML to analyze and detect anomalies on the moon. Evidently there are a pair of very interesting anomalous shapes on the far side of the moon found in the Apollo footage
People have already spent half a century doing just that manually. All we got was pareidolia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(Mars)

Still probably worth doing to see if anything pops out?

Would anything there most likely be buried under the sands of time or perhaps not since the moon has no atmosphere?
It would be vastly easier for an alien intelligence to build a big telescope to explore the cosmos, rather than sending out probes.
> Entitled NASA and The Search For Technosignatures, the 70-page document details ...

Dude, this is elementary-level grammar stuff. Titled, not "entitled".

Dude, not everyone on HN speaks English as their first language. You sound like someone who has never learned another language. It's fine to point out a mistake, kindly, but there's no justification for belittling someone for something like this.
Ex-pat here in Germany, normally I'd agree.

This article is written by Tim McMillan, who also owns the site. He's from Georgia originally, even a former Lieutenant.

He spent some time in Germany, but it doesn't appear he is originally from there.

His native language is English. There is a fair amount of credit list when grammar mistakes are made (means, usually, only a small number of people, or even just one person, looked at the copy before it was published, which is a red flag).

Just playing devil's advocate.

English is my third language. And I didn't explicitly belittle anyone, sorry if you feel that.

It's just that such mistakes are not warranted on a journal/newssite. Having flawless grammar in the language you're writing is an essential prerequisite for any journalist.

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Who wants to start a conspiracy theory that the real reason that aliens suddenly exist is the govt is trying to distract from x.

Let's discuss x.

That is not a new theory, the fake alien invasion has been going around for the last 2 years, and its roots are probably the Watchmen graphic novel, then later cowboy vs aliens.
New World Order? Locking down populations, forcing people to stay at home for extended periods of time, forcing them to take "medications" etc? Next step would be state enforced use of digital currencies, taking the control to next level.

Conspiracy theories, of course.

No need for special things like "conspiracy theory". Can be just prelude to some soon in cinemas movie :> Like "2012" and Earth doing scary things.

But yea - govs are well known for doing many stupid thinghs.

<conspiracy theorist mode>

    Of course, they are among us.
    
    They always were. 
    
    That is why there is no evidence.
    
    If they were not, we would know...

    And if the truth is not out there, it's right in front 
    of you.

    So, who want's to believe too?
</conspiracy theorist mode>
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> May have

> Could

> Possible

I fucking love science.

I have one hypothesis why Aliens are hiding. It's just they are simply afraid of humans torturing them for their color and appearance.
A wiser man than I once said, “Oh God, aliens... Your explanation for anything slightly peculiar is aliens, isn't it? You lose your keys - it's aliens. A picture falls off the wall - it's aliens. That time we used up a whole bog roll in a day, you thought that was aliens as well!”.

It was Dave Lister.

Aliens and pseudoscience fit nicely in the place religion would have. They can even share.