Posted on 09/21/2015 2:45:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In 1977, radio astronomer Jerry Ehman was looking through observation data from the Big Ear Radio Telescope....searching for evidence that alien civilizations might be trying to communicate using radio waves...
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The search generated...nothing but the background radio transmissions of the Universe.
But then he saw a data signal so interesting and unique that he circled it and wrote “WOW” in a red pen...
Ehman circled the characters “6EQUJ5”, distinguishing them from all the other 1s and 2s on the field of data.
What does this code mean? ... Why does it start with a 6 and then end with a 5?
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Each character on this chart corresponds to about 10 seconds of “listening”. If the telescope picked up a signal, it recorded the intensity with a single character. The scale went from 1 to 9, and then through A to Z. The highest ever recorded was U.
...what you’re actually seeing is mostly no radio signal, and then the signal gets brighter and brighter, as the Big Ear’s dish passed whatever was generating the signal, then it gets dim again.
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Ehman himself was doubtful it was intelligent in nature. He wasn’t even sure it came from outside the Solar System at all. He suspected it was either a classified military satellite or a reflection of an Earth-based radio signal bouncing off space debris.
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If it was a satellite transmitting in this spectrum, you would expect to see it get picked up in other locations around Earth and at other times.
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It makes sense that aliens would communicate in this spectrum; ...
The signal is a point source, which means it would have come from a specific star or planet in the Milky Way.
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The bottom line is that we’ll never know.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
lol
a guess???
6EQUJ5 = transit of venus
6- june
equ = sun`s equator
j=june
5= june 5
[”EQU” occurring in this sequence randomly is astronomically almost impossible/}
The planet Venus makes its last transit of the 21st century beginning at 22:09 UTC June 5, and ending 4:49 UTC June 6
“The 2012 transit of Venus, when the planet Venus appeared as a small, dark disk moving across the face of the Sun, began at 22:09 UTC on 5 June 2012, and finished at 04:49 UTC on 6 June.[1] Depending on the position of the observer, the exact times varied by up to ±7 minutes. Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable celestial phenomena and occur in pairs, eight years apart, which are themselves separated by more than a century:[2] The previous transit of Venus took place on 8 June 2004 (preceded by the pair of appearances on 9 December 1874 and 6 December 1882), and the next pair of transits will occur on 10–11 December 2117 and in December 2125.[3]
Interesting.
Maybe this?
Microwave oven to blame for mystery signal that left astronomers stumped
The mystery behind radio signals that have baffled scientists at Australia’s most famous radio telescope for 17 years has finally been solved.
The signals’ source? A microwave oven in the kitchen at the Parkes observatory used by staff members to heat up their lunch.
Simon Johnston, head of astrophysics at the CSIRO, the national science agency, said astronomers first detected the signals, called perytons, in 1998. The signals “were reasonably local, say within 5km of the telescope”.
Originally researchers assumed the signals – which appeared only once or twice a year – were coming from the atmosphere, possibly linked to lightning strikes.
Then on 1 January this year they installed a new receiver which monitored interference, and detected strong signals at 2.4 GHz, the signature of a microwave oven.
Immediate testing of the facility microwave oven did not show up with perytons. Until, that is, they opened the oven door before it had finished heating. “If you set it to heat and pull it open to have a look, it generates interference,” Johnston said.
Astronomers generally operate the telescope remotely and do not reside at Parkes. There were, however, a number of operational staff members who maintained the facility and used the microwave oven to heat their coffee or lunch.
Johnston said the “suspicious perytons” were only detected during the daytime and as they now knew, not during the evening when all the staff had finished their shift.
The signals were rare because the interference only occurred when the telescope was pointed in the direction of the microwave oven. And “when you only find a few it’s hard to pin them down”, Johnston said.
The findings have been reported in a scientific paper.
Interesting!
The Last Starfighter was recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Zur and the Kodan Armada.
I guess I should know that chick... but I don’t. Very pretty!
Could be!
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Alien creatures?
LOL!
Always thought Paula White looked sorta like a gray.
1977 to 2012 was 35 years.
The nearest earthlike planet is 40 light years away.
The nearest star with a planetary system suitable for life is 36 light years away.
Like wow, man.
The Dude microwave abides.
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