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"make me be like them? not gonna happen"
contempt for sure, pride, thats what took out the exalted fallen "angels"
"You borrow my brain for five seconds and be like dude can't handle it, unplug this bastard." One of the greatest quotes of all time.
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This is the famous “Wow!” signal printout from the Big Ear radio telescope, and the numbers were extraordinary because they showed a radio signal far stronger and cleaner than normal background noise, concentrated at one frequency and lasting exactly as long as a real astronomical source would be visible.
The telescope recorded signal strength every 10 seconds and coded it as 0–9, then A–Z for increasing intensity.
Most of the time you only see 0s, 1s, maybe 2s on the printout, which is just background noise.
In the circled part you see "6EQUJ5": that sequence means the signal rose from 6 up through E, Q, U, J (very high values), then dropped to 5, creating a peaked profile much higher than anything else on the page
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That peak corresponds to a signal about 30 standard deviations above the noise (~30 sigma), which is incredibly unlikely to be a random fluctuation.
The strength increased and decreased smoothly over several 10‑second intervals, exactly what you expect when a fixed radio source drifts through a stationary telescope beam, not what you expect from interference or noise.
It was also detected very close to the hydrogen line frequency (1420 MHz), which astronomers had long speculated would be a “natural hailing frequency” for any civilization trying to be noticed.
The “Wow!” annotation
Astronomer Jerry Ehman circled the 6EQUJ5 sequence on the computer printout and wrote “Wow!” in red ink because he had never seen such a strong, clean signal at that frequency before.
Despite later follow‑up observations, the exact signal has never been seen again, which adds to its reputation as an extraordinary, still‑unexplained event.