Posted on 11/29/2022 7:29:32 AM PST by BenLurkin
On August 15, 1977, the Big Ear radio telescope on the campus of Ohio State University recorded a 72-second narrowband signal onto a paper tape. Several days later, Jerry Ehman, an astronomer at the university, studied the tape and found the signal so unusual that he scrawled the word Wow! next to the data points.
Since that time, the signal has been discussed at great length in the astronomy community, but nobody has been able to explain its origin.
The researchers focused their efforts on that star system using two telescopes, the Green Bank Telescope and the Allen Telescope Array. Both were pointed at the star system on the same day. The Green Bank studied the star for two half-hour periods, while the Allen array conducted six observations that were each five minutes long. There was also one period when the observations overlapped.
The researchers found no sign of a signal, much less one worthy of a "Wow!"
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Probably random noise, or a signal emanating from a different location that was bent by gravitational forces
Oh, so the gravitational forces disappeared just in time for the new surveys. Lol Be consistent.
“or a signal emanating from a different location”
Could have been something from planet earth that bounced off the ionosphere and came back down in Ohio.
“disappeared just in time”
Well it has been 45 years...
WOW! WOW-EE ZOY=EE!!! (Full disclosure: I have no idea of the meaning and/or significance of those numbers, but I might be impressed if I had the slightest clue as to their meaning, ha, ha.)
Message to Elvis as that was the day before he "died".
The significance of those numbers is a persistent, highly directional signal much stronger than background. The old “Big Ear” radiotelescope was steerable in only one axis; it used the Earth’s rotation to scan in the other direction. It lost the signal when Earth rotated it away from the source. Subsequent studies of the same area have not detected anything. Although the signal was highly unusual, and definitely of extraterrestrial origin, its cause remains unknown.
and this surprises anyone? sound travels FAR FAR FAR slower than light. By the time some random transmission makes it to us not only has the origin moved, it may no longer even exist!
The Ohio Players stop playing?
Major Tom?
Sound? In space????
I hope this is sarcasm!
Well the mothership wasn’t about to just stop in its tracks. It had things to do, places to go. Chop chop!
Probably capturing the moment that their version of democrats nuked their civilization back to the stone age when their version of a bad orange man was elected
My variation of the Fermi paradox:
“Any civilization stupid enough to emit radio signals into space will be quickly destroyed by enemy aliens.”
Well, they did use a “Big Ear” to get the signal...
They’ve got cloaking technology.
Much of Science Fiction presumes that aliens are necessarily:
1) Much more advanced than us technologically.
2) Much more “advanced” than us sociologically, and therefore “peaceful” “enlightened” and “benevolent” ... ie, Space Hippies.
(1) Sort of makes sense if they’re visiting us ...
(2) Is absurd on so many levels as to boggle the mind. You get to be the top of the heap on your own planet by being the baddest badasses in the joint. When (if) you go traveling the stars, you’ll go out as the complete badasses that you are.
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