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Was the Wow Signal Caused by Comets?
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Michael Watson Send message Joined: 7 Feb 08 Posts: 1383 Credit: 2,098,506 RAC: 5 |
Prof. Antonio Paris, of St. Petersburg College, Florida, suggests that the famous wow signal may have been caused by the presence of two comets, in the same portion of the sky, and at the same time the signal was detected. This has aroused considerable skepticism, mainly on the grounds that comets, while containing hydrogen, do not seem to be prominent radio sources at the neutral hydrogen line, where the wow signal was heard. There may simply not have been enough energy for the very strong signal that was received. There is another problem, too. The wow signal was heard in only one of the 'Big Ear' telescope's two adjacent beams, as if after passing through the first beam, it turned itself off. A comet should probably have been heard in the second beam, too, especially considering the very high power of the signal. Link to journalistic article on this, and also a preprint of Paris' paper. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28747-famous-wow-signal-might-have-been-comets-not-aliens http://planetary-science.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Paris_Davies-H-I-Line-Signal.pdf |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Stranger things have happened. Thanks for the links. |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
Professor Rothamel has advanced a theory that the WOW signal was caused by a power surge in the amplifier in Antenna number 1? So what ? |
KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60 |
we thought BLOB signal was from a creature...& we thought wrong! about WoW, we thought that it was aliens... now we know it came from "no where"... soon, we'll have all answers! ;) non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU |
Cactus Bob Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 209 Credit: 10,924,287 RAC: 29 |
Exactly, so what? A once off blip of no importance. But half the world and most of the USA are secret UFO hunters, dribbling in their cornflakes at the thought of it being a REAL signal ...... Ooooh Ooooh Martha, quick, I must write to the Apple crunchers Gazette, we've been contacted!! Chris I am highly offended, I haven't ate cornflakes in years! Also I am wondering why the percentage is so much higher in the USA. Bob Sometimes I wonder, what happened to all the people I gave directions to? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SETI@home classic workunits 4,321 SETI@home classic CPU time 22,169 hours |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11358 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Also I am wondering why the percentage is so much higher in the USA. Bob I attribute that to the ready availability of aluminum foil here. |
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