The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #145609   Message #3369452
Posted By: Stu
29-Jun-12 - 04:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: Wow! Signal - 35th Anniversary Response
Subject: RE: BS: Wow! Signal - 35th Anniversary Response
Gnu - get a dog?

I understand where you're at. Our neighbour has about 15 cats in her semi, and although I keep an eye on them to try to prevent them decimating the local songbird and amphibian population, I often don't notice them until I mow the lawn . . . catshite really stinks, especially spread over my trousers.

Back to the thread . . . I wonder if the WOW signal was the cosmic equivalent of RF breakthrough; the signal was bounced off a passing meteor or planet or spaceship and by an incredible stroke of luck we heard it, possibly millions of years after it was transmitted.

Perhaps it wasn't artificially generated, but there are lifeforms who communicate using the radio frequencies, or the ultra-violet frequencies or . . . the possibilities are endless and fascinating.

Doesn't help Gnu with his cats though.