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Podcast: ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING
Episode: The Fermi Paradox | Case File 223
Description: Support, Socials, Website and everything ATT here: https://linktr.ee/alientheoristspodcastIn August of 1977, at the Big Ear Radio Telescope in Delaware, Ohio, astronomer Jerry Ehman reviewed a batch of computer printouts and was puzzled by a strange pattern in the data. The 72 seconds of readouts were so impressive, that Ehman circled the signal for his colleagues and wrote the simple word “Wow” next to it. The radio telescope had begun its part in the search for extraterrestrial life just 4 years earlier and a number of scientists thought they had finally found what they were looking for. They scanned the...