Comments on: The “Wow!” Signal

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 03:30:03 +0000

I am returned.

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 12:31:23 +0000

Checking back in.

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 01:12:09 +0000

Coincidences. I love them.

This evening, as I type this, “Contact” is on BBC America.

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:29:03 +0000

Evidently, we are still alone.

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 12:26:56 +0000

What I find interesting is that scientists are now saying that they think that we are alone in the universe, after all.

And they say this after so many scientists kept saying that life must exist out there on the other planets they are discovering.

It makes the conspiracy theorist inside me wonder what they are trying to hide.

By: bill hapgood

bill hapgood — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 23:04:13 +0000

Of course, as regards my previous post, amendments can be made in terms of both stellar distances and real time. I cannot feel other than a sense of foreboding that the WOW signal might be somehow the last panicked transmission of a technical civilization in the throes of some massive global nuclear exchange and we just happened upon their last cries of utter anguish. Technical civilizations like ours, perhaps, last only a few short centuries until that final horrific tragedy: for us in this year 2016, North Korea has nuclear weapons and are developing long range missile technologies; within ten years Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal will be eclipsed only by that of the United States and Russia, so, so there it is. Finally, I have a Ph.D in geology with a specialty in geomorphology, my last name you see in my posts is a pseudonym, and my scientific heroes are, if you will, in no particular order: Carl Sagan, John E. Brandenburg, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and last, but not least, Richard C. Hoagland. Cheers! Postscript: in the Eighties, I worked at JPL in Pasadena looking at the geological history of Mars, and I have the utmost respect for Dr. Brandenburg and Mr. Hoagland.

By: bill hapgood

bill hapgood — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 22:18:08 +0000

The WOW signal represents a singular event so far, insofar that there’s nothing quite like it. Then you might consider the Fermi Paradox: as regards possible extraterrestrial intelligence, “where the hell are they?” Indeed, Dr. John E. Brandenburg, in his recent book: “Death On Mars-The Discovery Of A Planetary Nuclear Massacre,” states so far the obvious: “The Cosmos is as silent as a graveyard.” Even within the auspices of “Mediocrity” re all likely forms of life in the universe, my thinking is thus: Sentient intelligence capable of developing an industrially and technologically advanced civilization are generally going to be separated by thousands of light years in terms of distance and tens of millions of years in real time. That, also factor in that better than 99 per cent of said civilizations will eventually engineer their own tragic NUCLEAR MASSACRE arising out of their own conceits to be forevermore silenced!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 04:44:58 +0000

What about the crop circles? Much better signals then WOW radio signal! They are visible to everyone but we still don’t hear enough about them!? Not enough publicity!?!

By: Troy

Troy — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 22:50:26 +0000

Maybe the radio signal wasn’t generated by some alien civilization as a means of communation. Maybe in the course of doing what they do, they inadvertently sent a signal with some piece of unrelated technology.

By: Sherman

Sherman — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 05:13:43 +0000

The big “it wasn’t found again” skeptacism has some weight to it for sure, simply because this way the signal has never been truly “verified”. However, I don’t agree with it being said that “they would send it more than once” as to imply that our not relocating the signal even means that it only occurred once.

As other pointed out, we have on several occasions sent one-time brief “METI” signals out into the cosmos.

I would, in fact, be more surprised if we WERE able to relocate it. I think that, given what we all know about this WOW signal thing, that unless it was an elaborate hoax or equipment malfunction, that it’s very likely to have been a chance encounter with an ET signal.

Assuming it WAS ET, I think it is highly unlikely to have been purposely aimed at us. And, I think it is highly unlikely that it would ever be detected again unless we are able to constantly monitor that space 24/7 for years. Even if we were able to monitor that region non-stop indefinitely, there are still multiple reasons we would never hear it again… by now we would have to assume the source continued to broadcast at whatever interval, 4 decades beyond the instance that we intercepted the presumably ancient signal. It’s just as likely to have been taken down on their planet in that space of time as it is likely that we would happen to dismantle the “BIG EAR”!!!

Exciting stuff here. My main skeptacism, again, lies in the sneaky but slim odds of an unauthentic cause due to hoax or malfunction.