We Are Not Alone Vol. II
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What stories reveal we may not be alone in the universe?
Hey Prime members, you can binge eight new episodes of the Mr. Ballin podcast one month early and all episodes ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. Today's podcast will feature three stories that reveal we may not be alone in this universe. The audio from all three of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode. The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description. The first story you'll hear is called The Wow Signal, and it's about the very best evidence of potential alien communication we've ever obtained. The second story you'll hear is called Better Than Earth, and it's about the 2020 discovery of 24 super habitable planets.
And the third and final story you'll hear is called Don't Sleep, and it's about one of the most famous potentially paranormal events of all time. But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday. So if that's of interest to you, please put the Amazon Music Follow button stapler in Jell-O. Okay, let's get into our first story called The Wow Signal.
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Late one night in the summer of 1977, a large radio telescope in Ohio intercepted a very unique signal. The telescope was searching the sky on behalf of an organization called SETI, which is the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. And the signal, although it only lasted 72 seconds, fit the profile of a message beamed to us from another world.
What is the Wow Signal and why is it significant?
Jerry Amon, who was a project scientist for SETI, was flipping through some of the computer printouts generated by the telescope when he noticed a series of letters. Now, the way this particular radio telescope worked is it pretty much constantly picked up a signal, but that signal was a very low background hum of static, and that was represented in 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. All those low numbers are representative of that basic background sound that they just write off. It doesn't matter. Occasionally, the telescope would pick up a higher number on the readout, like a 7, an 8, a 9, and even above that, it transitions to letters to represent louder radio signals. But all of those higher signals had a rational explanation.
Either they were anomalous, or they were tied to something very natural and ordinary. But that particular night in 1977, as the telescope swept across the sky, it picked up a signal that was so strong, it surged past zero through nine and made its way into the letters all the way up to letter U, and it held it for 72 seconds, representing a signal that was 30 times stronger than what this telescope normally picks up as its baseline. And after those 72 seconds, the telescope eventually passed it, and that signal dropped all the way back down. So when Amon saw this amazing string of letters representing this radio signal, he circled it in red ink and wrote next to it, WOW! And from that point forward, this transmission became the WOW signal.
One of the main reasons the WOW signal was not immediately cast out as some anomaly or chalked up to some other natural occurrence is because of what we understand about radio wave transmission. The goal of this radio telescope was to try to pick up radio signals coming in from other worlds. And so the way they did that is they opened up a whole bunch of different channels, receivers, they had 50 of them. And anytime they were aiming their dish in a direction of the sky, if there was any radio waves coming towards them, they tried to capture them on different radio frequencies.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What stories reveal we may not be alone in the universe?
0:00–2:24
2
What is the Wow Signal and why is it significant?
2:24–10:14
3
What criteria define a habitable planet and which are better than Earth?
10:14–20:49
4
What mysterious medical stories does MrBallen share?
20:49–22:04
5
What is the story behind Death County PA and institutional corruption?
22:04–24:38
6
What happened to Huang Yanchou in the 'Don't Sleep' story?
24:38–38:48