ShCherbak and Makukov then proceed to show the high likelihood that the genetic codes of Earth’s life indeed show evidence of embedded intelligent messages or signals. Such intelligent beings, they assert, would communicate their presence by seeding life-conducive planets with cells whose genetic codes contain embedded intelligent messages or signals. ShCherbak and Makukov argue that intelligent beings desiring to communicate across interstellar space would take advantage of the exceptionally reliable and stable storage of intelligent messages and signatures afforded by the genetic code. Because of how faithfully the progeny of a cell can preserve the genetic code, the intelligent message or signal, at least in principle, can remain frozen or unchanged for billions of years.
#Wow signal code#
That is, they showed how the genetic code could serve all of its necessary biological functions and also include a small intelligent message or signal. They then note that the genetic code of terrestrial life is a flexible mapping between codons and amino acids that permits the code to be modified artificially. In their paper, shCherbak and Makukov first explain the technical difficulties an intelligent civilization would face in trying to transmit a message at radio or optical wavelengths that would last, undisturbed, for a very long time. The signal was not seen or heard again, and to this day the nature of the signal remains a mystery. The term “Wow!” has its origin in a 72-second signal recorded in 1977 by “Big Ear,” Ohio State University’s radio telescope. The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) community has defined a Wow! signal as a transmission that is so unusual in its characteristics as to challenge reasonable naturalistic explanations, thereby leaving open the possibility that the transmission was sent by an intelligent being or community of intelligent beings. 1 In the paper, the authors claim to have discovered a “Wow!” signal in the genetic code of Earth’s life (think crop circles in our DNA and RNA). Artem recently alerted me to a paper published in the journal Icarus by two Kazakhstan astronomers, Vladimir shCherbak and Maxim Makukov. However, no response has been picked up so far.Ī new plan is now being considered to send another signal into deep space with new information that includes simple principles for communication, basic mathematical concepts, physics formulas, constituents of DNA along with information about humans, the Earth, and a return address if someone wants to revert.Thanks to Facebook and Google Translate, I have developed a relationship with a budding Christian apologist and scientist in Ukraine. The astronomer identified an object in deep space to be the potential source of the wow signal, the sun-like star 2MASS 19281982-2640123, which is too dim to image with current technology, an extragalactic source, or any other origin.Įarth, too, had broadcast a radio message using the powerful Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico containing information about the basic chemicals of life, the structure of DNA, Earth’s place in our solar system, and a stick figure of a human. An extraterrestrial civilization could have opted to behave in a similar manner," Caballero said in the paper. "If we analyse the history of (the few) radio signals that humanity have sent to several targets in the hope of contacting a civilization, none of those transmissions had a long duration or were repeatedly sent for a long time.
The search for the source has taken over 45 years as it never repeated and a similar signal was never detected. The research published in the International Journal of Astrobiology states that a total of 66 G and K-type stars were sampled to find out the source of the alien signal, but only one of them is identified as a potential Sun-like star considering the available information.Īstronomer Alberto Caballero, who led the research, has identified 2MASS 19281982-2640123 to be the ideal target to conduct observations in the search for techno-signatures of the signal.
Reportedly, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), which has been searching the dark trenches of the universe for intelligent lifeforms, continues to study the signal. Years later, researchers have identified the source of the radio signal that Ehman had dubbed 'WOW" signal to a sun-like star in the constellation Sagittarius nearly 1800 light-years away from Earth. Upon seeing the printout of the unique signal, astronomer Jerry Ehman circled the strange frequency and scribbled 'wow', giving it the mystic name.
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