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The Weird Signal
- dmux 9y agoIt's probably someone microwaving lunch.
- microwavecamera 9y ago"Damnit Bill do you have to eat that Hot Pocket right now? We're trying to work."
- gbugniot 9y agoRelated to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14791143 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14791143
- allencoin 9y agoFor 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.
- tomcam 9y agoYou caught me! Thank you very much.
- Darthy 9y agoSo what's the likelihood of a naturally occurring geostationary satellite vs one created by alien life?
- pavel_lishin 9y agoI think they mean a man-made geostationary satellite.
- jzamora 9y agoNice, very glad to see the telescope is still being used for some cool stuff.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoA good opportunity to ask: What does everyone here think the Wow signal was? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal 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.
- vecter 9y agoPeople think it's been solved: https://www.google.com/search?q=wow+signal+solved https://www.google.com/search?q=wow+signal+solved
- andymockli 9y agoAnd apparently the Director of the OSU SETI program disagrees with those people: http://naapo.org/WOWCometRebuttal.html http://naapo.org/WOWCometRebuttal.html
- vecter 9y agoNice find, looks like it's still a mystery.
- jerry40 9y agoInterestingly, 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.