The Weird Signal

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62 points·r721··13 comments

For those skipping straight to the comments, they basically think it's 1 or more geostationary satellites that happen to be in the path of the observed star, Ross 128.

You caught me! Thank you very much.

So what's the likelihood of a naturally occurring geostationary satellite vs one created by alien life?

I think they mean a man-made geostationary satellite.

Interestingly, we've surrounded our planet by sputniks which were invented as a step to the stars but sometimes they make our interstellar eyesight less sharp.

A good opportunity to ask: What does everyone here think the Wow signal was? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

I know it's just speculation, but it's fun to speculate. What could it have been? Could any natural phenomena generate a signal like that?

It certainly wasn't a message aimed at us, or anything like that. But it did happen, so I can't help but wonder what it likely was.

People think it's been solved: https://www.google.com/search?q=wow+signal+solved

And apparently the Director of the OSU SETI program disagrees with those people:

http://naapo.org/WOWCometRebuttal.html

Nice find, looks like it's still a mystery.

Nice, very glad to see the telescope is still being used for some cool stuff.

It's probably someone microwaving lunch.

"Damnit Bill do you have to eat that Hot Pocket right now? We're trying to work."

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