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Decoding The Unknown

A Message from the Stars: Who Sent ‘The Wow! Signal’?

Decoding The Unknown

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Unravel the mystery of the 'Wow! Signal,' a strange radio transmission from deep space. Could it be a message from an alien civilization? Join us as we explore the possibilities! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, I've already welcome back to another episode of Dakota in the unknown.

0:02.8

I as always am your host Simon.

0:04.8

Welcome, welcome.

0:05.8

When I'm here one of my writers, this case, Danny writes me a script.

0:08.8

It's a message from the stars who sent the wow signal aliens.

0:11.8

For sure it was aliens, or it was like a pigeon on the chimney or something, you know, just confusing the senses or whatever. Well, we're going to find out, aren't we? Imagine for a moment that many light years away on the far side of the galaxy, there

0:29.7

lies the world of Disco Biscuit, a small planet of little consequence.

0:34.0

Bose the inhabitants of Discobiscuit are of the rather arrogant opinion that they are entirely

0:38.4

alone in the universe, but a few of the scientists are convinced that there must be other

0:42.0

intelligent life lurking out there somewhere

0:44.7

in the unfathomable vastness of space, and some of them even claimed to have picked up some peculiar

0:49.9

activity from a region far away at the other side of the teapot of Sagittarius.

0:55.4

So one day they took it upon themselves to blast a signal into that region and announced

1:00.4

their presence.

1:01.4

Although there was always likely to be something of a language barrier, the idea was that the

1:05.1

short signal would be broadcast in such a way that any advanced life out there would be able

1:09.5

to immediately recognize it as a sound of intelligence transmission rather than some kind of natural universe burp.

1:17.0

However, after nearly 50 years had passed a scientist of disco biscuit are yet to receive a reply of any kind.

1:22.8

Shrugging in defeat, they eventually concluded that they might have to leave it a few more

1:26.7

million years before their celestial neighbors get around to evolving opposable thumbs and

1:31.6

inventing radio telescopes.

1:33.2

But what the inhabitants of Discobiscuit could never have known

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