What About That Mysterious Signal From Space?
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Did you know that on August 15, 1977, Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope detected a strong radio signal from the direction of the Constellation Sagitarrius? It took eight billion or 1800 light years to reach us.
Named ‘Wow’ by an astronomer, it was never positively identified and never repeated. Scientists claim it could only have been generated by an alien source.
I am one of those people who doubt the existence of a ‘supreme being’ but don’t doubt the existence of alien civilizations. Only man’s arrogance leads us to believe we are the only civilizations in the entirety of space. This same arrogance wants us to believe there is life after death for humans but not for anything else.
I believe in science and the science behind detecting that solitary radio signal is impeccable. Something or someone is out there. It won’t look like us and may be so far removed from what we accept as ‘human’ or ‘sentient’ that we won’t be able to comprehend what we see.
It is important to remember that aliens who do not look remotely like us will also be unable to comprehend what they see when they first see human beings. We will be just as foreign to them as they are to us.
They likely have never heard the ‘Man is created in the image of God.’ They most likely have never heard of ‘God.’ Then again, they may have their own Gods. In that event, conflict between our two civilizations is inevitable. It will boil down to my God is bigger than your God.
Anyway, I digress. To say I am intrigued about the mysterious radio signal would be an understatement. I have been devouring everything I can about it, even before the internet and our friend Mr Google. It might be an overstatement to say I’m obsessed, but I’m not sure.
In conclusion, I doubt I will live long enough to see an alien. Then again, as I watch the news, I wonder about some of those I see on the screen.
—Professor Mike
About the Author: Professor Mike is a writer and editor. He is also a teacher. None of the subjects he teaches has anything to do with science.
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[…] Mike is old enough to remember the 1977 alien Wow! signal from outer space. Scientists still can’t explain it to the satisfaction of other scientists. […]
“life in the universe” versus “life like us” is indeed a stretch. But as things that produce strange radio signals is a huge and expanding list of things in this vast and expanding universe I am not tempted to speculate, Whatever made a burst of radio noise 8 billion years ago was almost certainly a natural phenomenon.