Is the Wow! signal proof of extraterrestrial life or was it a fluke?

Question

I believe there is life out there so I just want to get people's opinion.

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

Answer 1

What is interesting about radio waves from something I read lately is that they are getting less powerful and more complex as our civilization progresses. This would mean that there is only a short period of time for a technologically advanced race to put out a radio signal that we would receive by chance.



Back in the early 1900s was when radio first started transmitting, then TV, The signals got stronger through the 1990's, but then we started using digital signals which have less power and their signal is quite scrambled. If you were to "listen to it" it would be like background noise. Similarly if technologically advanced being were out there transmitting communications signals to & fro, we would have a difficult time recognizing it unless we knew exactly what we were looking for.



Now a days, the signals leaving Earth are much lower in strength and more complex, so other civilizations that may be tuned into our signals may not see them as artificially created either.

Answer 2

I know about this and I can tell you for sure who was behind it.



Thanks to revelations made by the researcher John Bentley in his blog, we now know that a secret, highly-trained team has been studying Frondar for some time.



You won't have seen this on TV or in the press. It is currently only available to a small group of individuals with access to Bentley's blog. And he wants to keep this a secret, probably for military reasons. I, however, feel that the human race has a right to know what is going on. This is a revolutionary discovery and will affect us all.



And only a few days ago, the team made contact with the highly intelligent Frondarian race.

Many fascinating discoveries have been made about this race; for instance, they are half plant, half human, and have a remarkable ability to communicate with other species. They have also sent many messages to Earth,including the so-called "wow" signal.





As I said, I want to spread this information throughout the world. And for this reason I am pasting the link to Bentley's blog below. Please take a look, and then tell as many people as possible.

You also have the option of following the blog by e-mail or RSS feed.



We really should make sure the world knows about this.

Answer 3

this is extremely achievable. Edit: Raymond, all of us be attentive to the place it got here from. It got here from the constellation Sagittarius, close to the Chi Sagittarii famous individual team. And through the way, the persons who artwork at SETI have a technique of proceeding through a sequence of tests to be sure that the beginning place of the sign is definitely from an extraterrestrial beginning place. this is executed through tilting the radio telescope far flung from the sign's coordinates, and then tilting it decrease back returned. And that attempt had surpassed for the "Wow" sign, for 72 seconds.

Answer 4

I think the WOW signal turned out to be proven a fluke.



I believe there is a lot more life out in the Universe.

Answer 5

I think it was a fluke. He was A GRADUATE STUDENT at the time. The FIRST Wow! signal was 10 YEARS EARLIER, and that was from the first recognized pulsar and neutron star.



http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level1/BellBrunell.html

Answer 6

It's essentially a UFO... something only seen once, not repeated, and we're left to wonder what it was. I'd say a fluke.

Answer 7

There is insufficient data to conclude what it was. But, its lack of repetition precludes the possibility of deliberate extraterrestrial contact.

Answer 8

Literally billions of transmissions a second.....



Yep, i'd say it was a fluke.