Posted on 06/26/2012 9:48:24 AM PDT by Sopater
If there's something you'd like to say to aliens, now's your chance. The Wow! signal, a mysterious radio transmission detected in 1977 that may or may not have come from extraterrestrials, is finally getting a response from humanity. Anyone can contribute his or her two cents or 140 characters, to be exact to the cosmic reply via Twitter.
All tweets composed between 8 p.m. EDT Friday (June 29) and 3 a.m. EDT Saturday (June 30) tagged with the hashtag #ChasingUFOs will be rolled into a single message, according to the National Geographic Channel, which is timing the Twitter event to coincide with the premiere of the channel's new series, "Chasing UFOs."
Then on Aug. 15, exactly 35 years after the Wow! signal was detected, humanity's crowdsourced message will be beamed into space in the direction from which the perplexing signal originated.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
“Where are my fries? I ordered fries. Every time I come here, you forget the fries. And God forbid if I ask for a little ketchup.”
“6EQUJ5”? Oh....that was the audible if the outside linebacker looked like he was going to blitz. They’re football players.
My reply would be, “Uh, repeat that again, please.”
It read: OU EE OU AH AH TING TANG WALLA WALLA IG BANG. Finally the source of the words to that song have been revealed.
But Obama thought it said “ How to service men” thats why we are just now replying, Obama wants some Alien lovin!
Mine: "ALIEN RACE. PREPARE TO BE INVADED AND KILLED. YOUR TECHNOLOGY WILL BE APPROPRIATED AND YOU WILL BE TURNED INTO COCKROACH-RESEMBLING SLAVES. WE HAVE ALWAYS HATED YOU; NOW WE WILL KILL YOU."
Mine: "ALIEN RACE. PREPARE TO BE INVADED AND KILLED. YOUR TECHNOLOGY WILL BE APPROPRIATED AND YOU WILL BE TURNED INTO COCKROACH-RESEMBLING SLAVES. WE HAVE ALWAYS HATED YOU; NOW WE WILL KILL YOU."
How about, “Leave us the EFF alone!”
“Can you lend us a 50 gazillion dollars in gold? We’ll pay you Tuesday.”
Those characters are not the result of any decoding process. They are simply a way of showing signal strength vs. frequency and direction (actually, time due to the Earth’s rotation).
They show that the Earth’s rotation caused the antenna to scan some source of considerable intensity and narrow bandwidth (< 10 KHz) in a way that no terrestrial or solar source could be expected to duplicate.
But as the article says, it could have been a reflection off of a satellite or space junk, which might be able to mimic they dynamics of an extraterrestrail signal source, as seen by the project’s antenna.
“All your base...”
Well, you know the rest.
Everyone should “remember the pulsar” (LGM-1, 1967) which we thought was an intelligent signal.
“Come get me mother, I’m done.”
That sorta reminds me of Mystery Science Theater 3000!
It’s the end of the world as we know it; and I feel fine.
Aliens don’t have periods?
its kinda like were standing atop a mountain yelling for attention...maybe we wouldnt like the attention wed be getting. what then?
Yeah, right. Next you’ll claim that “OUI-JA” Boards are dangerous. What’s the worst that could happen?
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