WEBVTT - Thinking Sideways: The "Wow!" Signal 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:15.840 Thinking sideways. I don't know. You never know. The story 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:21.440 is of things we simply don't know the answer too. Well, 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:24.640 Hi there, I'm taking a page from Steve's book today 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:30.240 and saying, well, hi there there. I'm Devin, I'm Joe, 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.800 I'm Steve, and we three, with our powers combined, are 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:38.839 thinking sideways. Oh. I thought we'd planned this before. No, 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:44.080 I think you need to like coordinate a little bit. Dang, alright, 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:45.720 I was definitely not a page out of my bad 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:48.680 not a page from my book. We actually didn't need 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.839 some superhero music for for this, you know, we do. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.279 With the number of mysteries Joseph's Joe is so far, 0:00:56.200 --> 0:01:02.320 I think we're going to solve another one. We're probably not. 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.200 Maybe we are, I don't know. I think we will, Okay, 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.640 Joe thinks, so Steve doesn't. I say, maybe, Well, we'll 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.680 at least come up with a plausible theory. Yeah, that's true. 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.080 I love couple. Probably you can accept that. Yeah, so 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:19.680 I this is a big one. You guys know. It's 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:28.880 the wow signal, It's the wow yes wow. Um. I 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.119 wish you guys could see the crazy faces that we're making. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:35.000 Always say that, Um, but I don't want to start 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.679 out the story the way everybody else does because I 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:43.000 feel like that's super boring. Also, I don't want to Okay, okay, 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.800 we're gonna be talking about something picked up by a 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:50.600 radio observatory or radio telescope called the Big ear Um. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:55.160 It's officially called the Ohio State University Radio Observatory. It 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.520 was a how do you say that cross type radio 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.920 telescope located on the grounds of the Perkins Observatory in 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:08.120 the Ohio Wesleyan University from nineteen sixty three to nineteen 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.360 at which point it was annexed, torn down, and became 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.720 a golf course. Yeah seriously, yeah, seriously golf course. Now yeah, 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.919 I think they developed that land for like a golf 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.880 to expand a golf course and also put in some housing. Yeah. 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:29.480 Poor science, poor science of other radio telescopes out there. Uh. 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.840 And I know Joe has a better grasp on science, 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.200 your science stuff like this than I do. I'm gonna 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:41.280 let him talk about what a Crouse radio telescope has. 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.600 It has three components, right right, yeah? Yeah, So I 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:48.120 imagine imagine a flat like sort of almost football field 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.440 sort of shaped place, and then at one end of 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:54.040 this At this thing, you've got what's called the flat array. 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:56.840 The flat aright reflects radio way as it come down 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:01.120 from the sky across the field into this vertical parabolic array, 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:04.519 which is a curved array, and that reflects the signals 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:06.960 back towards the flattery and right in front of the 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.440 flat ter ay, there are these two things called feeder 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:14.079 cones which which receive the concentrated radio ways into them 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:18.200 and they convert them into electrical energy. So the then 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.520 this thing is adjusted north and south by moving the 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.440 flatter ay up and down, so essentially it's hinged at 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.720 the bottom and then it just like moves up and down. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.079 So if you want to like, say, further south, you 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.040 move it up. For the north, you move it down, 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.800 and that's how it works. Very and then in the 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.800 eighties thing I think that they had changed the Yeah, 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.200 they put one of the arrays on tracks. Now they 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.560 put the feeder cones on tracks. Oh, so they could 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.440 move east to west and stay with a whatever kind 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.480 of tone and yeah, are there if there was just 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.680 some galaxy they wanted to observe more closely something like that, 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.160 they could actually move them slowly side to side and 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.440 keep it in focus for longer than seventy two seconds 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:03.120 because yeah, otherwise, and we rotated out of because it's 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.520 the rotation of the ears. Yeah, that's how long they 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.360 could focus on some of I mean, anything with any 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:13.760 kind of meaningful distance from us. Basically, Yeah, basically it 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:15.560 was that the mercy of the of the turning of 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.560 the Earth. Yeah, So this update would have been really 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:22.560 really helpful to have had on August fifteen ninety seven, 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.719 a mere three years before they instituted the track system. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.760 So the update you're talking about is where the was 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:34.360 it the ears the feeder cones as well? Just make 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.520 sure I understand which update we were talking about. Yeah, 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.320 it would have been really helpful to have a guy 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.960 who was a member of study. I think is kind 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:46.120 of the way you say that's participating in steady. Yeah, 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:50.359 participating that you can can't really same member. Yeah, itization. 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:57.240 It's just a group of people mostly volunteer anyway, aren't they. Yeah? Yes, Okay. 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.880 He recorded what is widely believed to be some of 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.560 the best proof for intelligent extraterrestrial life out there, or 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.360 at least at the very least one of the things 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.600 that pretty much everybody agrees the best explanation for is 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:17.120 intelligent extraterrestrial life. And that's the wow signal. The signal. Okay, 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:21.840 maybe maybe we'll talk about it first. Some housekeeping. SET 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.360 is the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. It's a collective name 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:29.760 for a number of activities undertaken to search for intelligent 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.880 extraterrestrial life. And it's comprised mostly I think of scientists, 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:38.920 mostly of people who are not like crack pot alien theorists, 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.800 people who are pretty respected. Yeah, it's not it's not 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.919 all waing. That's I'm sure there's nuts in there, but 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:47.960 but most of it. A lot of the people who 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.360 take part in it are people who have do have 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.280 access to high levels of you know, like the big 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.600 ear or you've got to be really qualified to operate 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:00.000 or take part and use that equipment. So we make totals, 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.200 and of course not everybody is. Some people are just 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.640 home astronomers and things like that. But generally speaking, if 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.479 SETI says something, they deny a lot of stuff. They say, no, 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.320 that's definitely not stuff, so they don't jump right to 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.039 it every time. I got you. Yeah, and then we 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:15.719 do need to talk a little bit about this thing 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.800 called cosmic background noise. You guys know what that is, right, 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:24.480 kind of cosmic background noise is recorded at about fifteen 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.200 mega hurts and it's it's what you hear when you 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:31.000 turn the radio tune in to nothing. It's white noise basically. 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.279 And what that is is it's just left over thermal 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.880 noise from the Big Bang, which I think is pretty cool. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.799 Let's just watch some Big Bang the other days in fact, 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.039 but it's pretty cool right that we can still hear 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:48.599 this left over something from it. Yeah, the Big Bang 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:52.039 is still with us, and I have to admit that 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.719 that is it's more supposedly. Is that a theory or 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.919 is it accepted as a fact the noise is left 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.160 over from the Big Bang? Oh, because it's well, I mean, 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.120 it's all theories and we need the Big Bang is 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.680 only it's really weird to me. I'm not It's just 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:11.320 really strange to think that this noise and this radiation 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:15.040 has been bouncing around for that long from that one event. Yeah, 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:21.280 it's dispersing still, it's like an echo essentially that I could. Yeah, 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.800 just to reiterate, we mentioned it in passing a little 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.240 garbled before. The way that this array worked at the 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:32.400 time was that it was only it was focused by 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.880 their rotation. Essentially, it was stationary. So if you think 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.440 of it as like a pole kind of or just 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.880 like a tube extending out of the Earth into space, 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.280 that's what we see. And of course things come into 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.600 focus and out of focus, so there's a little variable there, 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.160 but it's we're only focused on what we can see, 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.760 and the Earth's rotation took us out at that point, 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.120 took us out of any kind of meaningful field of vision, 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.440 every of me two seconds. So what what what an 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.360 analogy that would make sense? Tell me if this is correct. 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:07.840 You remember when you were a kid and you got 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:12.040 the paper towel tube and you'd use it like it 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:16.560 was a telescope. So with this is so, the way 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.280 I'm understanding the way this thing works is if I'm 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.520 using that to look and I'm sitting on the Merrio 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.080 ground in the playground and it's moving slowly and I'm 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:27.240 looking through it, I'm going to see something and it's 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.760 going to go for if it's spinning left right, then 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.880 it's going to go from one side across that entire 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.760 field division and then pass out of that field division, 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.560 and that takes seventy two seconds exactly, alright, just trying 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:41.520 to because this whole thing again, this is the way 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:45.000 this this telescope works. Yeah, it fruit loops my brain. Yeah. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.240 And there's a lot of really great resources online will 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.480 link to and we'll put some pictures up of kind 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.280 of what's going on that if you just look at it, 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.880 it'll be immediately apparent what we're talking about. Our words 0:08:55.880 --> 0:09:00.160 are only so good. That didn't help me. So of 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.240 you who didn't know that. You know, astronomers don't just 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.200 use optical telescopes. There's all kinds of radiation out there 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.360 and it's all it all carries all kinds of interesting 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.640 information in it. And so yeah, I was reading the 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.360 some of the other radio telescopes out there, like that 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.960 one in Puerto Rico, the one that was in Golden 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.480 Eye would change the fond Yeah, yeah, I was reading 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.960 some of the some of the amazing discoveries they've made 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.160 with that thing, you know, And so it's like they've 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.800 done some seriously important work and well in the advances 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:29.560 in technology. They were put up in space. It's been 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:33.120 ten years or more now. No, it wasn't humble, but 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:36.840 it was some other telescope or some other array that 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.079 they could use, which is how they were figuring out 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:43.040 where the most gravitation and heat in the universe is 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.520 because it was mapping all of that, because it actually 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.320 had really fine detail for what it was in the 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.960 area it was covering. So it's these things just they 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.760 go just like smartphones, they go with leaps and bounds. 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.160 It just takes longer to figure out what the data 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.560 is telling. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's kind of one 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.640 of the big you know, like with the Hobble, for example, 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:05.319 you get some really cool pictures out of the deal. 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:12.679 So with the radio telescopes, what people tend to focus 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.559 on is this kind of Goldilocks frequency, which is the 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:22.120 frequency that scientists theorized that pretty much any intelligent extraterrestrial 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.840 life would likely broadcast in because it would signify both 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.360 the fact that they were there and the fact that 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:32.000 they were intelligent. I'm not really I don't totally understand 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.400 why they think that particular one is good. I mean, 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:36.800 I'm good with it, I'm fine with it. Yeah, But 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:38.720 it's like, you know, I I could think that the 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:42.160 aliens would be broadcasting all kinds of different frequencies, but 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.640 as far as I can tell, it's it's called the 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:50.440 hydrogen line UM and it's once one thousand, four hundred 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:55.240 and twenty point four zero five seven five one seven 0:10:55.280 --> 0:11:01.280 seven mega hurts exactly, which is the the electronnetic radiation 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:05.320 spectral line, which that is created by a change of 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:09.640 the energy state of the neutral hydrogen atoms. Which is 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:13.040 language that I will openly admit I lifted straight off 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:18.280 of Wikipedia, because nobody knows about this stuff. Joe might 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.040 know about this stuff off the top of the head, 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.720 but I think, as far as I can tell, scientists 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:29.840 kind of assume that hydrogen is the most prevalent than 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.040 it was the first one. That's why it's the most right. 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.800 So I think the assumption is that since it's the 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:41.120 most prevalent, that any intelligent life would like we have 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.720 say hey, we're smart enough to identify this and also 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:50.640 know at what mega mega hurts at wattage frequently, thank you, 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:56.360 it changes, And it's universal. It's not like a number, right, 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.680 it doesn't. It doesn't depend on our kind of life 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.280 or anything like that. It's universal. So they would broadcast 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.920 in this to say hey, we're here and we're smart 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:09.079 enough to understand this, and to you, yeah, and also, 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.280 I guess we're smart enough to broadcast this because it 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.080 takes a lot of energy to broadcast something like this, 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:20.880 but that is an important number. Basically, you know, fourteen megaheurts' 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:25.880 all right, megahirs rounded rounding is probably the easiest way. Yeah, 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.400 so they were listening at that frequency. That's well, they 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.200 weren't listening at that frequency. They were listening at all frequencies, 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.560 but that was the frequency that people were listening for. 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:39.160 That makes sense, really cool, Steve got the glazed overlook. Yeah, wait, 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.319 they were listening for I don't, I don't. So they 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.719 were hoping that something would come in on that frequency 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.000 and other resette was there. They're just an open broadband 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:54.040 listening to listening to everything and that they were hoping. 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.280 So they were Their hypothesis was if something is going 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.199 to come through, is going to come through this frequency? Yeah, okay, 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:04.480 that's going to signify likely signify intelligent extra trust. I 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.880 got it, I got it. Cool. I'm not sure that 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.360 that's true, because I mean, not gonna A radio telescope 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.680 is like an antenna, and antenna's antennas are usually specific 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:16.880 to frequencies. So like, that's why I like you know, 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:18.280 if you've got a little AM radio has got a 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:19.880 little short one, and then you've got it like something 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.800 that transmits or receives on a really long band, you 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:27.040 get a really long, long, long antenna. So I'm not 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.839 sure that this thing is really capable of receiving all frequencies. Yeah, 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.720 I mean, you know, I haven't. I haven't. I didn't 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:38.280 see anything in the research that said anything. I think regardless, 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.920 they're the one they were paying attention to. Was this 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:45.640 four magnats. Yeah right, because that's that's the one, that's 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:50.920 the one they cared about. So who knows, somebody might know. Listener, 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:55.720 call out aliens, tell us all right, so housekeeping. Yeah, 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:59.000 we're done with housekeeping. I think we are. I think 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.200 so cool is now we get to tell go into 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:07.080 the story. I know story. I know, anybody die yet. 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:12.960 August fifty seven, Jerry Emon is using the Big Ear 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.720 as a part of his Steti project. The Big Ear 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.480 records all the noise it hears in an alpha numeric 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.200 print out that correlates to the intensity of the noise. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.160 Most numbers that are recorded are like one to five. 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:28.920 You see the occasional six or seven, just background noise. Yeah, 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:30.840 and I guess this guy was not actually sitting there 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.000 with headphones on his ears. He was probably off sipping 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.440 coffee or maybe tequila. And then he just look at 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.000 look at the paper. Just go look at the paper. 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.280 Look at the paper print out later. Yeah, Because, as 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:43.720 Steve mentioned earlier, apparently white noise sucks to listen to 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:47.320 for some people. I find it comforting. Steve apparently does 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.400 not well. And it actually makes a lot of sense 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.280 if you can record all this stuff and just glance 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.080 at the paper later and look for anomalies. That's a 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.880 nice little time saving. Absolutely. But most of these sixes 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.080 and sevens that you see can be attributed to kind 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.960 of reflections, because you know, we make a lot of noise. 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.640 Their space jump that floats around out there for a 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.560 second or two is that pesky moon bounces stuff back 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:12.920 at its true sucks, but stupid moon, We're gonna get 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.680 rid of it soon, don't worry. In seven, for the 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.680 full seventy two seconds that the big ear was able 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:23.080 to receive it, it hurts something well unheard of the 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:28.840 print out read six e q U J five for 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.080 something that rarely hears anything above a seven. Once you 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.200 hop into the out to the alpha part of the 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:37.920 alpha numeric code. That's pretty intense. Yeah, and then to 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.080 get it all the way to queue and you that's 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.760 pretty high. And did you want to explain to our 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.800 listeners exactly how they this notation works? Oh? Yeah, I 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.760 guess my saying alpha numeric doesn't make a whole lot 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.920 of sense, does it? Was wondering. So the way that 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.800 it works is that zero to one it just it 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.480 basically refers. It refers to the amplitude that it receives 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.960 in right, So nine is like pretty loud to begin with, 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.920 but still kind of reasonable. And then it goes into 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.560 the alphabet, which is crazy, right, and all the way 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:14.960 to queue and you again, I mean that's crazy topping 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.240 out the scale. And I don't know what they do 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.520 if it gets up to z and then beyond Yeah, 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.120 I don't know what they do. Ye panic because it's 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:26.640 probably an attack. Probably computer explodes like a star trek. 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:32.160 Ye absolutely. Um. So Jerry sees this print out, circles 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.920 it in red pen and remarks wow exclamation point in 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:41.200 the margin, thus dubbing this phenomena the Wow. So that's 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.120 how got its name. There's some significant things here that 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.680 I like to point out, firstly, the burst was the 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:52.160 full se seventy two seconds long, which means that it 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:57.640 was probably longer than seventy two seconds. Jerry, when the 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.600 Earth came back around, searched that same patch of sky 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:05.600 again on the next day and he heard nothing crickets, 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:10.879 which means that space crickets. Yeah, that the signal was 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:15.640 anywhere between seventy two seconds and twenty four hours long, 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.719 but not longer than that. Probably, Well do you think 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.000 about It's like, you know, even if you're a sophisticated 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:26.359 alien civilization, to create something that strong, because that's gonna 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.359 you know, that's going to carry so far and still 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.359 be strong at this end, we'll take a lot of power. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.399 I mean, I would imagine they they probably you know, 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.359 I don't have enough damned and enough coal plants to 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:40.160 you know, really be doing. Yeah, yeah, I think that's 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:44.840 probably true. They think it came kind of from Sagittarius. 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:50.280 That's about the constellation, the constellation of Sagittarius. I am 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:55.920 not specifically two Sagittary I a solar system within there 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.240 as close as they can tell. Again, I mean, you know, 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.520 as a rato radio signal. They think it probably came 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:04.520 from that area, but it kind of came from like 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:08.240 a black patch in between some solar systems in the 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:12.399 Sagittarius constellation. And this is where they've done their their 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.879 math and their homework to figure out where the telescope 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:21.480 should have been pointing to make this this relatively accurate. Okay, Yeah, 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:25.399 and I think there's there's probably more more accuracy, you know, 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.600 side to side than up and down, because yeah, this 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:30.840 thing is like, it's not it's not it's kind of 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:34.320 like moving like a line across the sky. So it's 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.239 like picking up a patch of the sky, but like 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:41.160 a slice, like a vertical slice, and so and so 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.640 left or right, you know pretty precisely where it came 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:48.000 from up and there's a lot more variation in there. Yeah, 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:52.199 so it's kind of hard to tell where it came from. 0:18:52.320 --> 0:19:00.679 But the tone was a continuous mega hurts. Yeah, got louder, 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.760 presumably because just because of the rotation of the telescope 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.159 just and then finally reaches this peak when it's pointed 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:10.760 directly at that spot. Yeah, Okay, so you're under theories. 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:16.359 I think we should Yeah, I kind of want to know, 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:20.920 but I think we should do it. Stories bore you. 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.840 So you know, my theory is that it was the 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:31.280 death Star vaporizing a planet. That's very plausible. Actually, thank 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.679 you for sharing. Yeah, I want to talk about the 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:39.199 first theories are something of terrestrial origin. There are a 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:44.040 lot of self righteous quote air quote rationalists or air 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:48.639 quote skeptics who say, well, obviously it was a reflected tone. 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:52.639 Obviously we just it would pick something, you know, reflected 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.560 something and it was from the Earth and dot's fine. 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:59.040 Or was an airplane that flew over, or it was 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:02.440 something totally ball but doesn't really fit the pattern. None 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.760 of those fit the pattern. The problems with this, I 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:08.399 think are fairly obvious. The fact that it was the 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:12.720 continuous seventy two seconds. Who have to be a fixed point. 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:16.399 This guy could be something zipping by everything. Actually it 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.399 probably it couldn't have really been an airplane for the 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:23.600 same reasons. The other point that I want to make 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:28.719 is that MEGA hurts because the scientific community has come 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:32.480 together as a whole on an international scale. I'm pretty 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:35.399 sure that everybody in the world kind of agrees with 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:40.600 this is a protected bandwidth, so people aren't allowed to 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:44.680 broadcast on Earth. I can't get on my CB until 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:47.680 I mean, I don't know, I don't know how well 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.879 that's monitored. Of course, there's the possibility that some military 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:53.359 decided on all we're gonna do it. Oh, here's this 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:57.199 frequency that no, but he's using crazy or whatever. But 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:00.480 I think it's pretty widely accepted within the scientific community 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:04.680 that it's unlikely that somebody on Earth was just randomly 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:08.040 broadcasting at this frequency for seventy two seconds and it 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:13.840 randomly got reflected directly into the Yeah, that's a that's 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:18.879 a big coincidence, a really really big. The second theory 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:23.560 is user error. There are some grumbles. They're not super 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:27.240 super present, but there are some grumbles that Jerry didn't 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:31.840 have the radio telescope focused quite right, maybe that maybe 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:36.560 it reflected on itself, or maybe he misinterpreted something. Maybe 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:39.080 there was a smaller frequency that kind of built on 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:43.439 itself and he just let everything happen. I don't like 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:50.440 that theory, obviously. They The kind of proof that people 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:54.600 use for this is that the very large array, Yes, 0:21:55.240 --> 0:22:01.160 very large array. It's the real picture. Yeah, it's huge. 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:05.919 It's far more sensitive radio telescope array. Yeah, but you 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:09.600 don't keep saying, oh, well, the very larger rate didn't 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:12.399 pick it up. So obviously it was something terrestrial local. 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:16.240 It wasn't something from outer space. But how can it's 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:17.840 in New Mexico. Well, I know what it is, but 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:20.119 how can they say that the very large rate was 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:22.520 pointed at that precise spot. They can't at that time. 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:26.040 They can't. They absolutely can't. That's yeah, that's kind of ridiculous. 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:28.280 It is a very large rate. Did I mention that 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:33.240 it's very large? But I don't know very large. It's 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:35.919 very large. Yeah, So I think that just kind of 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:39.760 crumbles to pieces. Well, yeah, that's not I think it's 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:50.480 a bad theory. So the third very bad theory. The 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:57.440 third theory is something of extraterrestrial origins, kind of kind 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:01.520 of not intelligent extraterrestrial. You were talking about maybe like 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:05.000 a lighthouse speaking sort of effect, that it would be 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:09.600 something that was out broadcasting or reflecting and kind of 0:23:09.640 --> 0:23:12.960 a lighthouse like quasar effect sort of. Yeah, And that's 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:15.280 just it's it is possible. It's just some sort of 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:18.040 natural origin for the whole thing. It is possible. I 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:20.920 just feel like if it wasn't natural phenomenal, we would 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:24.240 have seen it probably again, particularly when we came back 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:27.840 around you know, or if the very large array focused 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:31.040 at that spot, you would kind of see something. I 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:34.399 don't know. I think that if let's just presume that 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:38.480 it's a quas a something throwing something out on that frequency, 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:44.320 and it's reflecting off some giant asteroid outside of our 0:23:44.359 --> 0:23:47.560 solar system, or off a plant or something, and those 0:23:47.600 --> 0:23:51.560 things are still bodies in motion, well, then it stands 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:56.680 to reason that the essentially the beam that it's shooting 0:23:57.240 --> 0:23:59.960 is going to continue to drift, as you were saying, 0:24:00.000 --> 0:24:03.280 in the lighthouse effect, and so it would drift past 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:08.119 where we were in our orbital track, so then we 0:24:08.160 --> 0:24:09.840 wouldn't pick it up. But of course when we come 0:24:09.840 --> 0:24:13.600 back a year later to that same spot, everything's not 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:16.439 all in the exact same spot because nothing everything in 0:24:16.480 --> 0:24:20.159 space doesn't move according to us, so it doesn't. I 0:24:20.200 --> 0:24:25.600