Could someone explain what "wow signal" was?
>>17089288IIRC It was a big cosmic ray event with some strange echoes that people mistook for what appeared as maybe a sort of unnatural signal (e.g. like a alien planet sending us a weird signal like how boats in the pre-radio sailing at night used to flash their lights at one another to alert one another to them sailing in the same area to avoid colliding). The Wow! signal was in the very early days when they didn’t know about modern weird cosmic ray patterns like from pulsars and various periodic stars and certain kinds of supernovas or black hole stuff that can happen like stars getting “eaten”. In retrospect everyone assumes it was some easily explainable astronomical process but the data was very primitive so I don’t think there is a conclusive explanation, but stuff like this is observed all the time now with modern observatories, usually pulsars or stuff like I mentioned
What it was was a powerful burst of radio waves that lasted a remarkably long time (over a minute). What caused it is still uncertain though there are many theories. There just hasn't been an observed signal of similar strength or duration measured since then to confirm any of them.
>>17089288space niggers trolling chuds
>>17089288https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCkhPTU13w&list=RDpyCkhPTU13w&start_radio=1
Aliens
>>17089288It could be a million things. If there's a million one-in-a-million events that could occur, one of them is bound to occur. As much as I like to give AI spergs shit, I lazily told Brave's Leo front end to scour every possible explanation and integrate them all into a time frame where, if it happened again, it would still be considered most likely a fluke. The conclusion after some "discussion" was a little over a century. And it decided the most likely fluke cause would be "interstellar medium plasma lensing." Ie. Transient plasma floating in space magnified a relatively small signal. Idk how plausible that actually is but the numbers shat out at me by the nachine map pretty well to the fact that we've seen something of this magnitude once over the course of 60 years. And it is already a well documented phenomenon.
some bullshit. stuff just happens man
>>17089344Leo is coolAlso good work anonThat seems plausible, what direction didthe noise come from, the pleiades?
>>17089288Yo momma farted
>>17089288spaceniggers
1977In that time humanity has almost traveled 1 light year from Earth with Voyager launching that same year. Just a few more days to go....
