Trevor Collins

In fact, I think Big Ear has never measured and never before measured anything as as loud as a 30 or again, in this case, a U to make it more confusing.

yeah okay yeah so this is like a so have we ever had a spike like this before we have seen spikes ever since this i mean since the beginning of SETI we have heard signals from space but the biggest thing about most of those is that they barely get off baseline they barely get louder than background noise so you do catch them you do say hey something was there

but nothing has been this loud.

And to further maybe over-explain it, the fact that they know it was 72 seconds long is interesting because of course you have six EQ UJ5, that is six points of data.

And he just explained, Emmet explained that these data points are taken every 12 seconds.

So of course, if you have six strong data points over 12 seconds, that equates to 72 seconds.

So it was the maximum duration that this telescope was physically able to listen.

It literally can't track something in the sky as modern dishes can, hence its very limited 72 second window.

Yeah.

Now, let me I mean, I've got a couple more things to explain here before the theories, but whether you're a believer or a skeptic or somewhere in between where you want to believe, but you want to analyze like us.

This is super, super exciting, no matter what the answer is.

If it's aliens, of course, that's groundbreaking.

That's shocking.

It's awe inspiring.

But when I start to talk about the interstellar and celestial things that could have happened to create this, you'll realize that we we just stepped into an extremely rare phenomenon.

This is not something you ever catch.

And researchers, in fact, kind of consider this occurrence to be a one time phenomenon.

And so the fact that such a limited telescope that can only scan up and down on the horizon, not side to side and track like modern dishes, the fact that it heard this at all is mind blowing.

A modern one, if it heard it, would have been able to track it and keep on it to maybe get more data.

But yeah, again, like I said, we've picked up several strange signals.