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linx310
12-13-2010, 12:05 AM
I saw a show about the "Wow!" signal.

For those who do not know what the Wow signal is this wiki article gives a good explanation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

Basically its the 1 signal the SETI program picked up that is probably of non-terrestrial and non nature origin.

You can listen to it here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f143-ak3q_Q

What I find cool is 25 years later they went back through all the theory of it being man made and none of them are plausible.

Specifically the freq it was picked up on was a protected freq. that the entire world agreed not to use and the chances of it reflecting off a piece of space debris is truly remote. And there were no satellites or man made objects in the flight path of the location it was detected.

The thing that sucks is what or whomever sent it is probably long gone...

ubersoldate
12-13-2010, 12:23 AM
Bigfoot.

TheMrMitch
12-13-2010, 12:57 AM
Yes. Very interesting and makes you think.
I have used SETI for 7 or 8 years always wonder what if..........????????

Look up "The Drake Equation" to understand the possibilites of life 'out there'.

Zygomatic
12-13-2010, 04:57 PM
One would think that if this signal were natural, we would have seen a lot more of it by now.

Sounds like modem noise or something you would hear with computers communicating. Going to have to look around for any info about people who have tried to decode it.

:thumbsup:

rahatlakhoom
12-13-2010, 06:22 PM
Interesting signal.
I always thought that at some point, any competent civilization would abandon
the folly of using radio frequencies for interstellar communication.
Dispersal and diversion of signal by gravitational fields alone render it
useless. Time factor across light years makes it a novelty effort only.
I guess Drake was looking for a chance encounter with signal leakage
off of some noisy culture.

I suspect Drake knows more about galactic communication and the biomorphic
bands that might be employed for direct no-delay communication over any distance.
aka Bell's Theorem, which demonstrates superluminal effects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem

Although no public data exists into research for use in communication,
I would certainly suspect is has been developed under classified programs.
To think otherwise would be to co-habitate with Neanderthal's.

AKTexas
12-13-2010, 06:24 PM
Bigfoot.

ET Bigfoot!

slamfire51
12-15-2010, 10:19 PM
It was a SOS from him to another galaxy.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c80/Canis-latrans/strange_pic_20101209225701_320_240.jpg

Krupski
12-17-2010, 03:21 PM
I saw a show about the "Wow!" signal.


That audio sounds like a tape recorder playing back so slow that you can hear the whistle of the recording bias oscillator.

So...... I sped it up by 800% and..... it sounds like VOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Listen: MP3 (http://three-dog.homelinux.com/images/wow.mp3)

Holy shit!!!!!!!

FunkyPertwee
12-17-2010, 04:05 PM
That audio sounds like a tape recorder playing back so slow that you can hear the whistle of the recording bias oscillator.

So...... I sped it up by 800% and..... it sounds like VOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Listen: MP3 (http://three-dog.homelinux.com/images/wow.mp3)

Holy shit!!!!!!!

WTF is that audio?

That can't be the same thing. I just can't imagine Krupski of Gunsnet found the secret of the Wow! signal.

Zygomatic
12-18-2010, 12:54 PM
"two ten, ten sixty one"

Son of a bitch, Krupski, that is amazing. If nothing else you need to make up a youtube post about this, you should get a lot of hits.

HDR
12-26-2010, 01:41 PM
WTF is that audio?

That can't be the same thing. I just can't imagine Krupski of Gunsnet found the secret of the Wow! signal.

Either that or wow what an echo. :D

slamfire51
12-26-2010, 01:57 PM
Either that or wow what an echo. :D

Sounded man made to me.

Zygomatic
12-26-2010, 02:49 PM
Yes, sounds man made. So now the question is, other than a hoax, what would make a signal bounce back 800 times slower than when it was transmitted?

slamfire51
12-26-2010, 02:52 PM
Yes, sounds man made. So now the question is, other than a hoax, what would make a signal bounce back 800 times slower than when it was transmitted?

It depends entirely on how many alien spacecrafts it bounced off.

Krupski
12-26-2010, 05:50 PM
Yes, sounds man made. So now the question is, other than a hoax, what would make a signal bounce back 800 times slower than when it was transmitted?

Doppler shift... reflected off a target moving REALLY fast...

(edit to add): Here's the same signal at 1X, 2X, 4X, 6X and 8X: MP3 (http://three-dog.homelinux.com/files/wow-1-2-4-6-8.mp3) (2.6 megabytes - broadband only.)

O.S.O.K.
12-26-2010, 06:19 PM
So indeed - make a youtube - you might get on Fox News or something. Be sure and mention gunsnet ;)

This is too much.

Cypher
02-18-2011, 01:43 PM
Did Krupski ever make a you tube video? It seems too easy to be the answer to a 30 year old question.

swampdragon
02-18-2011, 01:57 PM
"two ten, ten sixty one"

Son of a bitch, Krupski, that is amazing. If nothing else you need to make up a youtube post about this, you should get a lot of hits.

It would be pretty funny if all that meant was that the signal was sent on FEB 10, 1061...and it took a while to get here.

swampdragon
02-18-2011, 02:01 PM
Sounded man made to me.

Same here....unless aliens just happen to speak English and use the same number system as us too.
It probably wasn't aliens.
The recorder tapped into a parallel universe.
lol...

robert
02-19-2011, 08:47 AM
hook line and sinker , good job krups

HDR
02-19-2011, 08:57 AM
Specifically the freq it was picked up on was a protected freq. that the entire world agreed not to use and the chances of it reflecting off a piece of space debris is truly remote. And there were no satellites or man made objects in the flight path of the location it was detected.

The thing that sucks is what or whomever sent it is probably long gone...

The Russian woodpecker (used random frequencies) has transmitted on protected frequencies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Woodpecker

How do they know for sure it was of non natural origins?

FunkyPertwee
02-19-2011, 10:57 AM
The Russian woodpecker (used random frequencies) has transmitted on protected frequencies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Woodpecker

How do they know for sure it was of non natural origins?

That was a very interesting read. Thanks.

HDR
02-21-2011, 06:39 AM
That was a very interesting read. Thanks.

Russia's DEW line. ;)

Zygomatic
02-24-2011, 01:26 AM
It would be pretty funny if all that meant was that the signal was sent on FEB 10, 1061...and it took a while to get here.

Reminds me of one of my favorite movies that nobody else seems to like. I bet you would dig it Swamp. Check it out sometime.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGsv0pJemTY

swampdragon
02-24-2011, 03:31 AM
Reminds me of one of my favorite movies that nobody else seems to like. I bet you would dig it Swamp. Check it out sometime.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGsv0pJemTY

Ha ha ha.
Not only do I remember that movie, but I really liked it!
lol....
I kept wanting to see Alice Cooper sing Be My Frankenstein though...but that's a different matter.
lol...

swampdragon
02-24-2011, 03:39 AM
EDIT: FEED not Be