Will & Myself have been talking about the possibility of processing Genetic Data in Protein Members machines, in a twist on the SETI Project. That jogged a distant memory of WOW. If you didn’t catch it at the time, check it out.
The most famous signal in SETI history was detected on the night of August 15, 1977 at the Ohio State University Big Ear Observatory. As on every other night, while Big Ear was searching the skies for an alien signal, its observations were being recorded on a printout sheet. A long list of letters and numbers was continuously being churned out, one long string for every one of the fifty channels scanned by the telescope. A series of characters appeared recording an unusual transmission at the frequency of channel 2: “6EQUJ5” the list read.
