Trevor Collins

Their limitation was they could only print one character, but if they could print two, the signal strength would be a lot easier to read.

So background noise is zero.

Yeah.

If you see a one, that means it's one times louder than background noise.

Two is two times louder than background noise.

So when this signal starts, it's picking up at 6, which is 6 times louder than the background noise.

Now converting the signal into numbers, just so you can really casually understand this, it goes 6, 14, 26, 30, 19, 5.

So that U, that peak at U, is equivalent to 30, 30 times stronger than the background noise.

So that really gives you an idea.

OK, we're listening to space, listening to space.

Oh, my God, that's loud.

It's 30 times louder than the background noise, right?

Absolutely, it could.

In fact, we're going to talk about both of those things.

several astronomical celestial natural events that could occur, rare as they may be.

We'll also talk about a theory that explores comets.

But I think the biggest thing to kind of lean on here is just how strong it is.

You don't passively, casually get signals this long, this steady, this consistent, this focused on the 1420 megahertz line and this strong all at once.

It truly is

a very rare moment in the search for signals from space to see something this powerful.