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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by specfiction[/i] [br]It is often said that SETI--the guys looking for extraterrestrial signals by intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, have never seen anything. Well, not quite. In 1977, a radio telescope in Ohio did see something for about 72 seconds that people have yet to explain satisfactorily. Now it may be that this was not extraterrestrial intelligent life, but whatever it was, it was damn interesting. Even if there are many advanced technical civilizations out there, the chances of seeing (hearing) anything over the short time we've been looking, given the noise, distance in space and time of interstellar objects (star systems), the chances are mathematically fleetingly small. But nevertheless, here it is, the [url="http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=318"]WOW Signal[/url]--enjoy! ____________ Specfiction [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.