How the Wow! Signal Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In 1977, Ohio State astronomers discovered a radio transmission from space that was 30 times louder than the cosmic background noise. Since then every explanation of what it was has fallen short and the Wow! Signal remains possible evidence of alien life.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Welcome to Stuffy Should Know from House Stuff Works.com.
0:34.8	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.6	I'm Josh Clark.
0:43.6	There's Charles Lovie Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry.
0:46.0	So it's Stuffy Should Know.
0:48.6	Wow.
0:49.6	First of all, I think we should go ahead and apologize to eight Stuffy Should Know fans.
0:59.6	There are more than that.
1:00.6	Who have already heard this?
1:02.0	Yeah.
1:03.0	We went to the World Science Festival.
1:05.2	We were invited to the World Science Festival in New York City and we wanted to give a little
1:09.6	special shout out to Ben and the Ace Hotel for putting us up while we were there.
1:13.7	Yeah.
1:14.7	We did a live podcast short form in Washington Square Park on a Sunday afternoon.
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