Trevor Collins

Sometimes we sprinkle it in for fun.

This time is probably the most serious time that we'll ever address it outside of maybe talking about the Fermi Paradox at some point.

But what is interesting is I believe the stars that it emanated nearby right in in the Sagittarius constellation, Chi Sagittarii.

I looked those up.

I think they were about 255 light years away.

Doesn't mean that they're emanating from those stars.

It could be emanating past those stars.

We really don't know the origin of it, but if it was an intelligent species, they in some way could be seeing us, right?

That's not outlandishly far.

Looking at us 255 years ago,

they're just we're just so far away that's hard right now but we're here yeah yeah we're gonna send this to you while you're a baby but it won't make sense now but when you grow up you'll get it you'll get it okay so let's dive in the theory that this is aliens because from the get-go emin himself was a volunteer for the seti program again the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

This doesn't mean that these people are biased towards finding aliens.

It just means that that is an interest of theirs and a passive project that I mean, while you're studying the stars, you might as well be on the lookout for any unusual signals coming in because odds are there's something out there.

So anyway, some speculate that the wow signal is an attempt at communication from an extraterrestrial force.

In 1959, Cornell University physicist Philip Morrison and Giuseppe Cocconi speculated that extraterrestrial civilizations would attempt to communicate via radio signals.

This is math, quick math, 18 years prior to the wow signal.

They hypothesized that these beings would do so specifically using the hydrogen line frequency.

So when the wow signal came through on that, people perked up.

They believe, again, I kind of mentioned this before, but they believe this because hydrogen, again, is one of the most common elements in the universe.

And it would almost create a universal language.