Lost at Sea
by Jon Ronson · 1 Oct 2012 · 375pp · 106,536 words
to end on an optimistic note and so he mentions the one time in SETI history when something broke the silence. “We call it the Wow signal,” he says. “It was a radio telescope in Ohio, back in the days when they didn’t have the electronic gadgetry to go ‘ping’ if
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars
by Rowan Hooper · 15 Jan 2020 · 285pp · 86,858 words
‘Wow!’ on the printout from the telescope, and the burst of radio transmission has since been known among aficionados as the Wow! signal. There are two ideas for what caused the Wow! signal. The telescope was tuned to a radio frequency of 1,420 MHz, which is the wavelength of hydrogen, the dominant component
Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future
by Brian Clegg · 8 Dec 2015 · 315pp · 92,151 words
is, indeed, a signal that is quite unnervingly artificial sounding. The LGM-1 source was relatively quickly explained, but a second signal, the so-called “Wow! Signal,” has never had the same certainty about its cause. This was the best result yet to be discovered by the real SETI on which Ellie
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an earthbound source and a one-off natural event in space, but the signal remains unusual in the annals of the SETI search. When the Wow! Signal was detected observations were still being made on a limited range of frequencies, in this case close to the hydrogen spectral line, but later work
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transmitter and encryption with quantum particles quantum teleportation quantum tunneling The Quincunx of Time (Blish) radio signals alien contact and first intergalactic interpreting SETI and “Wow! Signal” in radioactivity rail gun RAND Corporation ray guns rays refractive index relativity Einstein’s Galileo’s replicants retina scans Robby (fictional character) Roboroach “Robot Suit
50 Future Ideas You Really Need to Know
by Richard Watson · 5 Nov 2013 · 219pp · 63,495 words
to believe in something much bigger than ourselves too. the condensed idea Are we alone? timeline 1855 First exoplanet false alarm 1960 Drake equation 1977 “Wow!” Signal (a radio signal picked up by SETI in 1977) 1995 Discovery of 51 Pegasi b, an orbiting planet 2001 Exoplanet HD 28185b found in habitable
Beyond: Our Future in Space
by Chris Impey · 12 Apr 2015 · 370pp · 97,138 words
” at Ohio State University. In 1977, a technician at Big Ear saw a booming signal on the printout and annotated it with an exclamation. The “Wow!” signal never repeated and was never identified with a celestial source; scientists consider it a dead end. Radio SETI involves searching for narrow band signals, typically
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The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars
by Jo Marchant · 15 Jan 2020 · 544pp · 134,483 words
and location to the Galaxy; for all we know, any creatures out there might be malevolent—or hungry.” Arecibo also broadcast a reply to the Wow! signal, in 2012. Sponsored by National Geographic, this signal included around ten thousand Twitter messages, labeled with the hashtag #ChasingUFOs. In late 2017, a nonprofit group
Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
by Matthew Cobb · 6 Jul 2015 · 608pp · 150,324 words
twenty-first century’, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1178, 2009, pp. 6–28. shCherbak, V. I. and Makukov, M. A., ‘The “Wow! signal” of the terrestrial genetic code’, Icarus, vol. 224, 2013, pp. 228–42. Shea, N., ‘What’s transmitted? Inherited information’, Biology and Philosophy, vol. 26, 2011
The Signal: Watch Out for the Darkness
by Nick Cook · 11 Jul 2018 · 112pp · 28,314 words
. ‘No, I want to rule out every other explanation first, Lauren. You know what happened with the team who were caught up in the famous Wow! signal.’ ‘Of course I do. Every astronomy student is taught how the Ohio Big Ear telescope team thought they’d captured an extraterrestrial signal.’ ‘And then