Stephen Hawking - The Wow! Signal

Stephen Hawking talks about the mysterious signal picked up by radio astronomers that become known as the Wow! signal.

Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking - Aliens

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[samer721]

the universe is to big just to have humans

[catman13903]

lol so they were like, WOW look at this signal we picked up, it could lead us to an alien civilization, what should we say back? ahh don't worry about it they're prolly all dead

[aluluei]

I agree with catman13903. I don't think we should give up! Humanity has only existed for 2,000,000 years, and we have only just recently discovered the atom bomb. If there are intelligent aliens out there, they might have been using atomic power while we were just learning about fire. If they've sent us a message from 200 miles away, we should really think about leaving them a reply, most ideally saying something along the lines of:

"We got your message!  Hello, aliens! Welcome to Earth!"

[aluluei]

0:08 "Hawking to Meet Their Leader"

ME:  Of course.

[spacewatcher215]

Whew! I sure hope those intelligent life forms out there aint as violent as humans that get violent even on youtube comments. ... (Sigh) It's not so "great" to be human.

[Saparonia]

@Boss5414 I recommend that you read Passport to Magonia, written by a data analyst, Jacques Vallee, for a non emotional and non sensationalist account of the many incidents involving ordinary and rational people from centuries ago to the present.

[Boss5414]

@Saparonia They don't have any reason to contact us. They can't gain anything... and making the observation that intelligent life is extremely rare, why would they disturb the harmony? If they did know we were here, they would probably just observe us... since that is the most logical thing to do.

[Saparonia]

@Boss5414 How can you say they are avoiding us? If they came to your house and knocked on the door you wouldn't believe them!!!

That's how they do it, they don't say "take me to your leader". they go visit whoever happens to be around and people get all freaked out and some even start shooting at them!

People can't openly say they've seen them for fear of ridicule or worse.

Look up "Bishop Agobard and the flying ships" on a search and what he said about them. It's nothing new.

[theideagirlsays]

im decoding the wow signal and video blogging about what i've found - new components to be used to build a ufo engine that will travel fast.

[Lem0nade0ranges]

They might have not forget us, so just send a fucking signal!

[Lem0nade0ranges]

what if we can send back the Wow signal back to them, so they'd come back!!