The Wow! Signal: Alien Message, Cosmic Fluke, or SETI’s Best False Alarm?
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For 72 seconds, the universe seemed to answer SETI. The Wow! Signal was strong, narrowband, and strangely convincing... but it never came back. So what actually happened in 1977?
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The Wow! Signal: Alien Message, Cosmic Fluke, or SETI’s Best False Alarm?
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
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