RE: Why we might be alone in the Universe
May 11, 2019 at 1:35 pm
(This post was last modified: May 11, 2019 at 1:39 pm by Jehanne.)
(May 10, 2019 at 9:02 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(May 10, 2019 at 8:12 pm)Jehanne Wrote: The signal did not create itself; where did it come?
How do you know it's not a natural event? Where did it come from? Any damn where.
Read the Wikipedia article; it was at 1240 MHz, a protected area of the EM, where the fundamental element hydrogen transitions, the most likely frequency for ET to send a message. Also, it came from Sagittarius, where the center of our Galaxy is located.
(May 10, 2019 at 8:31 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(May 10, 2019 at 8:12 pm)Jehanne Wrote: The signal did not create itself; where did it come?
There are a number of alternate theories on that. A military spy satellite would certainly be capable of creating such a signal and also would not have been documented/traceable as the source. Another theory is that a distant comet could have passed into the detector's field of view.
Though unlikely, it is possible for a comet to create the signal picked up by the detector.
The signal was only seen in one horn, and not the other. The spectrum is too Gaussian ("bell shaped") to have been the result of a moving satellite, and a geosynchronous one would have hit both horns.
