Technology is a wonderful thing. Since the dawn of man we've been forced to rely entirely on our own human senses as the only resource for detecting strange and unusual phenomena, but not anymore. The 20th century saw its great universe-changing burst of human technological development and with it came even more mysteries. Some are solved, such as the discovery of radio waves emanating from astronomical objects, but a growing contingent of mysteries detected through technology shows us that unexplained phenomena are not simply a product of overactive imaginations. SETI, or the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, is an effort designed to detect evidence of alien species. Dedicated mainly to finding radio waves from an intelligent extra-terrestrial source, the various SETI programs so far have not provided any proof of aliens. Except maybe once. On August 15,1977 a signal was detected by Dr. Jerry R. Ehman using an Ohio State University radio telescope. Lasting a full 72 seconds, the signal didn't seem to come from inside the solar system, and had all the attributes that would have been expected of an alien signal. Ehman reacted by circling the signal on his printout and writing the words "wow" next to it.

The wow signal is interesting in that it seemed to come from a fixed point in the sky. The telescope Ehman was using wasn't able to move, it pointed in one direction and then relied on the rotation of the earth to change its direction. The net result of this was that the telescope would only see a small area of the sky for a short time, and any signal coming in from outerspace would only be seen for 72 seconds - the exact duration of the wow signal. During the observation, ideally the signal should peak and then decrease as the earth rotated the signal out of the telescopes view, and again, thats what was observed in the wow signal. This method generally rules out earthly radio interference as a source, and points directly to an area of interstellar space located in the constellation Sagittarius.

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Fantastic article. The detection of noise be it from space or from the deep blue sea are one of the most intriguing phenomenon known to man. As it applies to space or the search for extraterrestrial life I believe that unfortunately we are so far behind the scientific spectrum of any life that exists outside of the solar system that we simply don't have the ability to detect the advanced method of their communication. When most members of the scientific community advance any theory as to why we haven't detected the ambient communications of extraterrestrials they use measures of time that may include some hundred of years or thousands of years but rarely venture anything beyond that. I believe that we are actually looking at hundreds of thousands or even millions of years of separation in both our civilizations existence but also in you relative distance to each other. I also believe that there may actually be more of a dimensional aspect to this equation meaning that we will not be able to detect an ET's presence until we find a way of breaching our own dimensional barriers. As for the oceans of the earth one need only look at the fact that we have explored only two percent of the ocean floor and even then we have not done so where the severity's of the surface prevent us from looking below. There has been an extensive search of the Abyssal Plain leading up to the Marianas trench because there's open ocean above it but we can't do much to look under the ice caps of Antarctica or it's slightly more accessible North Pole cousins. When we have incorporated technology that allows us to tackle any severity whether it be vacuum or pressure. Only then can we examine the depths of our planet or attempt to determine the origins of the marvelous sounds that continue to engage our imagination and entice our sense of adventure.


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