Please get a sense of humor before criticizing an incredibly clearly satirical article which really doesn't do anything to hide the fact that the author knows this is all bullshit.

I'll just leave this here...

[Friend of the anonymous programmer who discovered the issue, Brian Young] calculated the odds of three letters of the alphabet being combined with 255 symbols, and said he found that the odds of obtaining the message were less than one in a trillion.

Vi Hart does an exceptional video on this subject that I think clears a lot of the confusion up. It is not that things happen 'because' of these ratios and sequences, it is that they conform to these ratios and sequences. Considering we are all working in the same frame of physics, would it not be stranger if there…

Neither is built on base 10 numbers. We use base 10 numbers to describe them, but they would remain mathematically unchanged regardless of base.