Thursday, June 2, 2011

Question - 667

What is this?

Answer: The Wow signal - the most promising signature detected by SETI program yet which inspired the remark. I was about to cast aspersions on whether the signal is genuine since it came out of research at Ohio state but then I found out that the researcher (Jerry Ehman) graduated out of the University of Michigan. Oh Well!!! Matti, Karthik, Raghu, Barry Belmont, anon and Mihir got it. Well done.

7 comments:

matti tapaninen said...

The most promising transmission from space ever detected by SETI

Karthik said...

Possible ET contact that led the researcher to exclaim "wow!" in the margins

Raghu said...

The Wow! signal, SETI's famous ET find.

Unknown said...

That signal received in 1977 by the SETI program which (at the time) was thought to have been the first evidence of "something interesting" coming from space.

Unknown said...

Kervorkian.

Book by Kurt Vonnegut.

Anonymous said...

The WOW! signal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow_signal

Mihir said...

The Wow! signal - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

Too easy for this blog!