The Wow! Signal: Alien Message, Cosmic Fluke, or SETI’s Best False Alarm? (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac ArthurShow Notes
For 72 seconds, the universe seemed to answer SETI. The Wow! Signal was strong, narrowband, and strangely convincing... but it never came back. So what actually happened in 1977?
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