It's stonishing that there was not ONE mention of the amazing story/film by Carl Sagan based on this very topic!!!??? MUST SEE to anyone interested in this.

Three Body Problem was boring. There were some REALLY cool ideas sprinkled in but i don't eat a poo flavored ice cream just because it has cookie dough in it.

Late 70's computers are far less complex than todays, a smartwatch has far more complexity than a 77 IBM in just it's screen alone. The less complex a computer is the greater the impact a malfunction or glitch has. When one occurs on a 70's computer there is no doubt one occurred, such as Wow signal being when the computer stopped computing and the end of the printout for something todays computers would have a half a second hang before continuing as if nothing happened. If they checked it to be sure and found nothing then it is the least likely possibility. Since it never happened again then it is not a possibility because computer malfunctions are repeatable and all that computer did was repeat the same process over and over.

Does Simon usually remember what channel he's own, or do the editors cut out his tangents from the more impersonal channess? 😂

Three Body Problem

This was solved years ago it was a very early Russia satalite and they were trolling america

Why are you videos always different volumes ?

Ammm, Green Bank is in WEST Virginia, not Virginia. We have been a separate state since 1865.

As far as "we cant possibly assume how an alien thinks" that's not entirely true. Math is math, any alien civilization smart enough to build an interstellar broadcast device is going to be smart enough to make their message noticable.

This one i can say without as much sarcasm that it is definitely, probably, possibly aliens

The thing i don't understand about looking for alien signals is one if they are using slow radio shnals it probably means they are not very advanced and even if a signal from the closest star system the signal would be so weak from dissipation we probably would think it was just part of background radiation l. Two i think any species that is advanced enough would probably use quantum entanglement and unless you had the corisponding particle you wouldn't see it. I may be completely wrong about how entanglement works because well quantum physics is not a easy subject to understand but its fascinating

Absolutely brilliant!! 😊😊😊

Greenbank is n wv

Is Danny using the word stochastic so many times just to hear Simon mispronounce it?

Stoke – Astic is how stochastic is pronounced Simon. A well read and interesting story as usual, albeit with many words occasionally questionably pronounced. I wonder how you would say albeit? 😅

Don’t come for me, but the scientist in me must explain the common misconception of what radio signals actually are. The reason The Big Ear telescope couldn’t hear anything was because radio waves are LIGHT waves…not sound waves. The telescope was detecting light waves in the radio part of the spectrum. From longest to shortest wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum (which is all the different frequencies/wavelengths of LIGHT); radio, microwave, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma ray). This is just one of my biggest pet peeves. For instance, the wretched movie starring Jodie Foster that was supposed to be based on the book written by famed astronomer Carl Sagan, “Contact,” begins with Foster working for SETI at a radio observatory. She has headphones on like she’s LISTENING to the incoming signals from space. That’s not how it works, that’s not how it works AT ALL! The radio light waves hit the receiver, and can be converted into sounds that can be heard by the human ear, but they cannot be heard by a telescope.
All this being said, the reason for the common misconception is likely because when we think of radio waves, we think of the device we use to listen to audio. However, the radio waves are not sound, but the radio light waves are encoded with the audio data. The light is transmitted then picked up by the receiver on the towers, sent through a computer and converted back into an audio file that you then hear on your radio. There is no listening to a radio telescope. Ever. But the association of radio with sound is even in the astronomical community too. When astronomers detect a galaxy that is “radio loud” it just means that it has a lot of radio light that is being detected by the telescope.
I’m sorry if I offended anyone or that I’m rambling on, but this genuinely makes me so livid that I can’t help myself.