My best guess is we are more likely to receive a continuous string of data from some far away alien broadcast as opposed to a specific message aimed at us. Want to get in on the action? Click here. Members get advance access to episodes, extras, contests, and other shenanigans with Jay, myself and the rest of the team. We’d like to thank Ockie Simmonds and the rest of the members who support us in making great space and astronomy content. Our Patreon community is the reason these shows happen. Thanks for watching! Never miss an episode by clicking subscribe. Give us your best guess in the comments below. When do you think we’ll detect a signal from an alien civilization. Instead, it’s more likely we’re just polluting space itself with more junk and radio signals. Sadly, the mysterious WOW Signal isn’t clear cut evidence that alien civilizations are trying to broadcast in our direction. I hope the aliens enjoyed it, and think about us with a note of sadness as they follow up with the deployment of the Hyperspace Construction Fleet towards our mostly harmless planet. Just for fun, in 2012 researches used the Arecibo Observatory to send a signal from Earth containing messages, tweets and photos in the direction that the WOW Signal originated from to guarantee that aliens send their space meat harvesters straight to Earth. It happened just this one time, and then not anything else like it, not from this region, or any other region in the the sky. When astronomers tried to follow up, the signal was gone. So, when you look at this chart, what you’re actually seeing is mostly no radio signal, and then the signal gets brighter and brighter, as the Big Ear’s dish passed whatever was generating the signal, then it gets dim again. The scale went from 1 to 9, and then through A to Z. If the telescope picked up a signal, it recorded the intensity with a single character. The Observatory was listening to radio signals coming from a region of the sky in the Constellation Sagittarius, near the M55 globular cluster.Įach character on this chart corresponds to about 10 seconds of “listening”. What does this code mean? Is it a cryptic message from an alien civilization? Why does it start with a 6 and then end with a 5? What are they trying to tell us?įrom the moment Ehman red-penned in WOW, this has been known as the WOW Signal, and it’s been the cause of much speculation by SETI researchers and aliens fans and confusion for World of Warcraft players around the globe.įor starters, it’s important to understand that the Big Ear Radio Observatory didn’t actually receive these characters in a message.
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