Talk:Wow! signal

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Time_bin?

The text now states that the signal strength was measured every 12 seconds. This seems implausible, one would expect time bins of 12 seconds in which the intensity was accumulated, in the same way apparently intensity bins are used. This is corroborated by the straightforward histogram on Science-frontiers.com, if we can trust that graph, why not. Hansmuller (talk) 22:08, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Primordial black hole?

https://www.technology.org/2020/05/25/maybe-a-fleet-of-tiny-spacecraft-could-help-detect-a-primordial-black-hole-planet-9/

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-planet-primordial-black-hole.html

I wonder if this could be responsible in part for the "Wow!" signal in 1977, to wit one of our own signals reflected back or more interestingly a weaker alien signal gravitationally lensed to above our detection threshold.

Interestingly RATAN-600 may have provided further evidence to support the hypothesis, in terms of the mysterious signal at around 11.025 GHz later attributed to inadvertent detection of the downlink signal from a classified satellite. 11.025 GHz is coincidentally in a relatively unused part of the spectrum corresponding to the interchange between high and low bands on a satellite LNB so it is feasible that an alien civilization in range could choose this frequency anticipating advances in technology and possible detection of our radio and TV emissions though not the data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RATAN-600