Let's talk about the Wow Signal, and how it's blatantly extraterrestrial and artificial. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

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Anonymous Fri Jul 23 04:41:05 2010 No.1465678 [Reply] [Original]

Let's talk about the Wow Signal, and how it's blatantly extraterrestrial and artificial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 04:42:05 2010 No.1465681 never been repeated. fiuck off

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 04:44:05 2010 No.1465687 >>1465681 Reported for being too dumb for /sci/.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 04:45:05 2010 No.1465691 >>1465681 >implying that means anything

Anonymous Fri Jul 23 04:46:05 2010 No.1465696

>The frequency 1420 is significant for SETI searchers because, it is reasoned, hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and hydrogen resonates at about 1420 Mhz, thus extraterrestrials might use that frequency on which to transmit a strong signal.[1] The frequency of the Wow! signal matches very closely with the hydrogen line, which is at 1420.40575177 MHz

my god

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 04:47:05 2010 No.1465700 Earth is scheduled to be destroyed in 2312 to prevent humans being a threat to the Zorlach empire. Until then they take pleasure in trolling us.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 04:55:05 2010 No.1465721 This is awesome.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:06:05 2010 No.1465758 >>1465700 >2312 >implying it wont be 2012

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:14:05 2010 No.1465775 >>1465696 What the fuck kind of reasoning was that?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:17:05 2010 No.1465783 >>1465775 >hydrogen resonates at about 1420 Mhz, thus extraterrestrials might use that frequency on which to transmit a strong signal.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:23:05 2010 No.1465797 Tell me if they find it again.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:24:05 2010 No.1465800 >>1465783 What's wrong with that? It's just saying that aliens might broadcast a signal on the frequency at which hydrogen resonates because it's the most common element.

>>	David !4changtcqk Fri Jul 23 05:28:05 2010 No.1465811 what would this signal mean?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:29:05 2010 No.1465812 >>1465811 hi /b/ extraterrestrial life potentially

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:29:05 2010 No.1465813 >>1465811 ~Let's Fuck~

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:31:05 2010 No.1465818 >>1465800 No. You broadcast at that signal because it causes hydrogen in the interstellar medium to resonate, thus making the signal stronger.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:31:05 2010 No.1465822 >>1465818 Not deteriorate as fast

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:32:05 2010 No.1465825 So what happens if we're contacted by aliens and it turns out they're brutally honest and offend a bunch of assholes?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:36:05 2010 No.1465830 >>1465812 this is /sci/, not /b/... though some days you can't tell the two apart...

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:36:05 2010 No.1465831 >>1465825 Those assholes can go be butthurt elsewhere

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:37:05 2010 No.1465836 >>1465831 ALIENS: LOL THEY THINK GOD EXISTS Muslims: SPACE JIHAD

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:38:05 2010 No.1465841 >>1465818 Doesn't what you said happen as a result of hydrogen being the most common element?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:41:05 2010 No.1465856 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_source_SHGb02%2B14a

Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:41:05 2010 No.1465855

>>1465841
They broadcast at the freq that hydrogen resonates at because:
1) it's the most comment element found in the interstellar medium.
2) hydrogen resonating at that frequency makes the signal deteriorate more slowly allowing the signal to stay relatively strong even over vast distances.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:46:05 2010 No.1465872 File: 47 KB, 731x536, 1279854036762.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] THE ALIENS WERE ALL LIKE "6EQUJ5" AND I WAS LIKE "Wow!" /thread

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:48:05 2010 No.1465879 What's funny is that extraterrestrials could be using a bunch of different frequencies that we aren't scanning. Our planet could be inundated with alien TV shows and music and we'd never know it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:51:05 2010 No.1465887 >>1465879 >extraterrestrial television shows HURRRR

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:56:05 2010 No.1465899 >>1465830 yesterday /b/ got everyone to post under David#｢QtuP\|}!

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 05:58:05 2010 No.1465909 >>1465887 So there may be extra terrestrial life, but they don't have forms of entertainment like music?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 06:08:05 2010 No.1465944 File: 103 KB, 523x382, I daresay I seem to have injured my ankle.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is interesting.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 06:10:05 2010 No.1465958 >>1465944 LOL @ THEH TEACUP

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 06:19:05 2010 No.1466002 File: 8 KB, 493x402, lolcompcart.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1465696 >>1465783 >implying that aliens use the SI unit of time

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 06:21:05 2010 No.1466006 >>1465836 >>ALIENS: LOL THEY THINK GOD EXISTS >>'merikkkans: SPACE JIHAD fixed

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 06:26:05 2010 No.1466023 It's completely useless since we will never possible know who or where it came from, and the species who could've sent it is long extinct.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 06:27:05 2010 No.1466026 >>1466002 Not sure if srs

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 06:32:05 2010 No.1466042 File: 38 KB, 389x383, laughing girls 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1466002 >implying hydrogen resonates at a different frequency if you use different units

>>	None !caG84MXea2 Fri Jul 23 06:34:05 2010 No.1466045 >>1466023 I was thinking that. What if it was the dying gasp of a planet, attempting to warn us of some coming apocalypse?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 06:38:05 2010 No.1466049 >>1466045 When we finally manage to figure out the message it will be: >THEY ARE COMING >RUN

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 06:40:05 2010 No.1466054 >>1466045 A million alien neckbeards, lamenting that they would die alien virgins on alien internet.

Anonymous Fri Jul 23 06:42:05 2010 No.1466057
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>>1466049
There is no more message, it was a one time thing. But humanity hadn't technologically advanced itself enough to fully receive the signal as it was intended.

None !caG84MXea2 Fri Jul 23 06:43:05 2010 No.1466060

>>1466049
>December 19th, 2012
>Front page news: The WOW signal was deciphered!!!1!

>December 20th, 2012
>Front page news: Satellites and radar stations detect massive incoming signals and ship-like objects coming from where the WOW signal originated.

>December 21st, 2012
>No news.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 06:47:05 2010 No.1466076 Engfag here. I want to prepare for the end of the world but I have no way of getting a gun. What can I make to protect me?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 06:48:05 2010 No.1466078 >>1466002 wow...

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 06:49:05 2010 No.1466080 >>1466076 Sharp pointy stick. I'll sell you one for 20 quid.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 06:50:05 2010 No.1466084 >>1466076 Perpetual motion machine.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 07:04:05 2010 No.1466118 >>1466054 This

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 07:26:05 2010 No.1466171 >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal >its frequency have been given: 1420.356 MHz >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_source_SHGb02%2B14a >at a frequency of about 1420 MHz wat

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 07:40:05 2010 No.1466194 >>1466171 Oh shit

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 07:45:19 2010 No.1466200 >>1466171 redshifting or blueshifting. errors in measurement, carrying through calculations etc.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 07:49:05 2010 No.1466206 >>1466042 >>1466078 The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon >implying that aliens use seconds

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 07:50:05 2010 No.1466210 >>1466206 >still implying the frequency at which Hydrogen resonates will change if you use different units.

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Anonymous Fri Jul 23 07:56:05 2010 No.1466219
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>>1466210
>>1466210
>>1466210

No you fucking dumbass. If hydrogen resonates at 1420 times a second but aliens use an interval of time equal to, say, 1.5 times our SI time unit, then to them it will resonate at 2130 times an "alien second".

Then they would transmit a signal which we would receive at 2130MHz.

I'm not saying that it would change hydrogen's freq. I'm saying that their units of time and therefore measurement are different!

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 07:57:05 2010 No.1466222 >>1466219 see >>1466210

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 07:57:05 2010 No.1466223 >>1466219 No you fucknut. They'd transmit at whatever frequency hydrogen resonates at which we would still receive at hydrogen's resonate frequency. gb2hiskoo

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 07:58:05 2010 No.1466225 >>1466219 4/10

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 07:59:05 2010 No.1466227 File: 114 KB, 499x409, 1278849092485.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1466206 Oh dear.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:02:05 2010 No.1466234 File: 161 KB, 450x450, Failed troll, lol.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1466233

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:02:05 2010 No.1466233 >>1466219 >>1466206 >>1466222 >>1466223 >>1466225 >>1466227 >all implying that aliens would use multiples of 1000 instead of the more likely scenario that they would use a system of math that is incomprehensible to us

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:03:05 2010 No.1466236 >>1466225 4/10 my ass, I fuckin' rage'd like none other >>1466219 10/10 Fuckwit

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:04:05 2010 No.1466237 >>1466233 I wasn't implying that at all.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:06:05 2010 No.1466243 >>1466234 u maek n0 sence

Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:06:05 2010 No.1466245

>>1465678

>Implying that if they actually came here they wouldn't skull fuck us.

Any race capable of inter-stellar flight might as well be god to us, and if there isn't some serious bowing and scraping by the retards in our respective governments we're pretty much fucked.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:08:05 2010 No.1466249 File: 80 KB, 955x634, 1268104937208.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1466219

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:11:05 2010 No.1466257 >>1466233 like base 8?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:13:05 2010 No.1466263 What if the aliens are tasy

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:13:05 2010 No.1466265 If aliens exist they must be omnipotent. If they are God, they can exist despite all physical evidence to the contrary. Therefore they would use seconds as a measure of time.

Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:14:05 2010 No.1466266

>>1466219

No matter what units they use, no matter what units we use the value is still the value.

I use 1 meter say and you use a foot. Our measurement of the length of your penis will be different in our units. But your penis is still the same 2 inches long erect. We call it different, but it is the same length.

They send message at the hydrogen resonance frequency, we listen to that frequency. Units difference don't come into play. Just like no matter what units we use, your dick is still the same size. Tiny.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:15:05 2010 No.1466272 Is there no audio of it? No printout of the waveforms?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:17:05 2010 No.1466278 >>1466272 this did they just measure the strength of signals and not actually capture them?

>>	Mike Le Watt !L4ityhwMgA Fri Jul 23 08:21:05 2010 No.1466290 >aliens try to contact us >they want to fuck

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:21:05 2010 No.1466292 File: 49 KB, 1280x1024, Erwinschrödinger.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] just a bug.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:22:05 2010 No.1466295 >>1466266 Your mom didn't say it was tiny.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:26:05 2010 No.1466307 >>1466295 Your mother is so fat, each time she jumps out of bed the guys at SETI mark another Wow! signal.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:42:05 2010 No.1466353 File: 1.04 MB, 150x150, reaction fffuuuuuuuuu.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1466060 >>1466060 >>1466060

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>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:59:05 2010 No.1466401 >>1466263 >DONT TAS ME BRO

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