Im going to watch (listen) the science out of this one!

I know this isn't necessary the purpose of your channel, but I find these so relaxing. I've been having terrible insomnia, I had a great day, for example, everything was great but here I am at 2 am on the verge of tears because I just want to sleep. The past few weeks Event Horizon has been the only way I've been able to calm myself and fall asleep. Thank you 💕

This is my favorite episode so far. Such a tantalizing event. It's like fishing for the big one and getting one strong nibble.

(a) The WOW signal is narrow band, i.e. probably of technological origin. (b) It was only sent once or we only received it only once. (c) It is adjust for doppler shift, i.e. directed at us? (Not sure if I understood this correctly.) (d) It had no modulation, i.e. contained no message. (e) Probability of a stray signal not intended for us is low. So we seemingly have received a letter with no origin address and an empty sheet of paper. Anyone saw the movie "The Hunt for Red October"? There when the Russian ship sends "only one ping" to the US ship, it means "we can see you". A second ping would be needed in order to have all info to send a torpedo. That's why it is important, that they sent only one ping. Also CMIIW, in the naval business sending only one ping for that reason above is interpreted as intimidating. Under assumption that the signal indeed was of alien origin: (f) They had the option of not sending it. (g) They had/have the option of repeating it. (h) They had the option of adding modulation with a message. (i) They know what they are doing and mistakes are unlikely. (j) They would only allow one unambiguous interpretation of the signal. (k) They choose to sent the signal, so we are relevant to them. To me this seems that they want to let us know, that they can see us and are there, but want no further contact. It could mean they are cautious. It could mean a warning. It could mean we should wait for further messages, i.e. build something like SETI but (b) and (g). It could mean we somehow entered their territory or disturbed them in any way, so that they saw the need to react and let us know. In a more martial way think of a sniper circling a laser dot on your chest so you can see it but not pulling the trigger. It could literally mean "you are not alone".

This show is just amazing. The host, the guests, the ambient music in the background, the topics of conversation. Its just lightning in a bottle.

Dr. Ehrman is a great guest, thanks for this.

What a legend of a guest. Literally legendary - WOW signal - it will forever be a landmark historical moment.

You've inspired me to build my own radio telescope and see what I can find myself. The more eyes out there the better chance we have of finding something. Thanks for everything you do John I think I'll buy some of your books for a read.

There's no going back once you've fallen into the *Event Horizon!!*

Why are there even any dislikes!? This was awesome to listen to!! I love the mystery surrounding the wow signal the thought that it could have been another civilization is mind blowing.

He was such a sweetheart, a mindblowing episode! I am 21 and watched every single Episode on booth his channels and I ask myself, why this channel is so underrated. This Channel deserves millions of Subscribers, but our Culture has gone downhill. I mean, English isn’t even my first Language and I am watching this, because there are no good science Channels in Germany, but 510 Million native Speakers around the World have the possibility to listen to this, plus the rest that is speaking English as an additional Language. I am so happy that there are more people like me out there...and I wish you all an amazing day! 🤙✅

I'm Dutch and got up in the middle in the night just to be here! (and now I see my chat is broken :( ) Thank you John for yet again a great episode. I say Wow

EH is probably my favorite youtube channel right now. Fantastic work, John!

Fantastic episode! I learned quite a bit about radio and SETI. Makes me want to do radio astronomy myself. I think the Wow signal was it! Thanks for this interview loved it.

Eagerly awaiting this one, Mr Godier. You should reach out to Dr Brian May for an interview. He's quite active online and would be a great pull for your channel too.

Never before heard about the red/blue shift adjustment of the signal. That is almost scary.

Im not saying it was aliens, but it was definately aliens.

It's like the first part of Contact, except nothing happens afterwards :(

Wow. Synchronistic. In '77, we got Star Wars, the Voyager launches, and I graduated finally! Today, we get EH AND The Last Skywalker! Kinda feels like '77 again, except I won't be losing my virginity this time. :)

I love that you interview actual authoritative people in your shows. Good job. Very interesting. 👍

Aliens: "The Hydrogen Line is very important for interstellar detection. Let's ban the use of frequencies on this channel!" Also Aliens: "Let's listen to frequencies on the Hydrogen Line! It's the best line of communication!" All Aliens (including humans): "...sure is quiet."

All , I can say is "Thank You" Event horizon for this amazing interview with Dr Jerry. Learnt so much more than I was expecting. The details of the measurements and the possibilities of the origin , things I always wanted to know about this topic were all answered. I am blown away by the details and the compelling narration,

What an amazing guest. Event Horizon is such a great show!

You see? That's why when I get my notification from Event Horizon where ever I am it puts smile on my face! 💜.

How did I miss this one for a year?? I find the WOW! Signal endlessly fascinating. What a special treat to hear directly from Dr. Ehman. Belated thanks to all. And I agree with what Dr. Ehman started to say toward the end about politicians. Maybe a Fermi Paradox filter is having politicians.

That intro... WOW

Thinking about the possibilities honestly gives tingles in my stomach. Just imagine.. Lovely conversation as always John, thank you. Amazing guest.

This was amazing. The quality of the guests and their knowledge is constantly amazing me. Also, John and crew do such a great job researching the topic that the interview questions are always spot on. Every guest spends the whole show responding with "yes exactly" or "great questions" then they expound. Great work guys.

This is the content I live for

I always thought local interference getting into the equipment was a possibility, but his description of how the channel scanning rolled over all of them in succession several times per sampling period seems to rule that out. Any interference should have affected all channels to roughly the same degree. Indeed strange.

Hi John, love your channel, I am your space brother. I attempted to make my own WOW signal in visible light back in 1973 when I aimed a flash light at the Pleades for about a minute. I like to think there might be a couple photons still on their way there, they would be almost 50 light years away by now. Many years later I ended up working in on multiple space missions in my job and am totally obsessed with space. You have a great channel and a knack for discussing this topic. Please keep it up.

Can't wait for this one. But I'll have to wait even longer because i'll arrive home very late today. Thanks Event Horizon, JMG and Dr. Jerry Ehman for accepting the interview, very appreciated. I'd have money I'd donate. Only thing I can do is watch the ads. Greetings from Chile

This channel should have more likes and subscribers than Taylor Swift & Kardashians combined! ☄

Intelligent conversation without any garbage. Exactly what you expect from educated people. This is a great interview. Really enjoyed this.

What an episode. All I can say is Wow!

One of if not your best interview yet

Man, if only we had picked up that signal today with current technology. As discussed in this show; if the source of the signal was intelligent life and they were taking some random shots in the dark to see if they could get a response perhaps they may yet again transmit that signal in our direction so we can pick it up with current technology. Edit: I also did not know how long the signal was received before listening to this interview. I had assumed it was shorter.

The intro always gives me chills. Always

So excited for this interview! Thanks so much, John and team. This really is the best channel on KZfaq.

I think the real eye opener in this interview was towards the end when Dr. Ehman revealed that they would not have been able to detect modulation in the signal even if any was present. Disappointing, but such where the limitations of their equipment. So, we're back to square one. Based on what we know now there's no way to characterize the WOW! signal as either natural or artificial, and Dr. Ehman wisely refuses to do so.

Thank you John for this great episode.

Love the subject of the Wow signal. Great content John

Fantastic interview, JMG!!! Basically, we detected a signal, noted its strength... And that's it. If we have recorded it... Damn... That would've been fantastic!

I think this might be the most interesting channel yet. This is awesome! Thank you so much for doing this! 💛 The link was awesome to have to follow along while he was explaining.

Thank you John for another extremely interesting program and thank you Dr. Jerry Ehman for your years at SETI and for this contribution in particular. I'm very interested in the direction from which the signal came. Would like to have had more information on that? But I have since read up on where the direction of the signal was estimated to have come from (Sagitarius Constellation....or anywhere in between I guess!) Interesting to see that the only stars that could have been aligned at the right moment as transmission source are 6 very distant stars...no close stars or planets/moons in our solar system? I suppose this also still leaves open the possibility that the transmission came from a spacecraft within or just outside our solar system...wow!

Honestly love your content! Going to save this to watch during my chemo tmrw :)

What a down to earth man. Excellent interview. Honestly I’ve been a hard skeptic my whole life but I can’t escape the conclusion that at this present time the alien hypothesis seems the least implausible explanation…though it’s probably a mystery forever.

Relistening to this after your new wow signal video.

Great episode! I didn't know much about radioastronomy. Thank you Event Horizon team! Greetings from Argentina.

Long live JMG and all the scientists invited! Thank you!

"It was the best of times; it was the blurst of times..."

Excellent thoroughly enjoyed today's show no doubt will watch again

I have been waiting for this !!!!!!!! Thank you !

John, thank you for interviewing Jerry before his firsthand knowledge and experience is lost. You have truely performed a service to the generations of SETI explorers to follow.

The Wow! Signal really does fascinate me. Great topic, thank you!

A great show John Godier! And this shows us all why we need to do more work on SETI. Just think if say NASA put just 0.1% of its budget into it we would have "The Allen Telescope Array" up to the full 350 dishes! and we could work on SETI 100X more than now! But even still according to Seth Shostak, we are now doing more SETI than ever before and listening to over a million radio channels at once since 2011 with The Allen Telescope Array. Partly from you and some of your guests, I have been collecting the parts to settup my own mini SETI project. So far I have been given an old 3m parabolic satellite dish (the minimum size to do 1.4 to 1.7 GHz) and am working on a booster receiver and planing to do drift-scanning with it mainly around the water hole frequency of 1420 MHz, then hoping to join James Brown at SETINet who are looking for the Wow Signal! www.seti.net/NewToSETINet/aboutSETINet/about.php

Wow! Top notch once again JMG!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

What bothers me about the Wow signal is that it was found so soon after we started looking and then never again. It would be interesting for someone in the know to give a ballpark estimate of much of space had actually been scanned at that point vs. how much has been done in the entire history of SETI. (This would take into account such things as strength of the detectors, area scanned, length of time per area, amount of data examined, etc.) If it turns out that only a minuscule fraction had been looked at, say .0001% of the total examined by today, then that would mean that the odds against finding our best signal at that point in time would be one in a million.

great interview, really cool to hear from the man himself who wrote the famous wow signal that i/we have hear of many times before

This is one of the greatest KZfaq channels that youtube has recommended me thank you thank you

So... so interesting.... another one of our (man kind’s) discoveries that demands more answers! Thanks for sharing.

Nobel Prize for Dr. Jerry R. Ehman Thumbs up!

This is a great interview with an interesting guy! Well done! I remember hearing about this when I was about 6 in 1977. I have been been fascinated with it since then.

O H I O! The greatest place on the planet😔

I know we will never know conclusively what the Wow signal was but I prefer to believe that it was an alien civilization telling us we are not alone.

This was definitely the most exciting wait for me this is so cool! I'm also very interested in the great attractor if you're looking for new ideas.

Frustratingly enegmatic. Did the strength of the signal temporarily 'blind' or overload the 2nd receiver? Back in the day, the electronics could be pretty flakey. Not seeing the signal via the 2 receivers is a massive cause for concern as I find it very difficult to believe that the signal either 'ended' between the two receiver's listening points or started between them and hence only detected by 1 of them.

Every day I have a Wow! moment. I see something really weird and then I never see it again.

Wow, talk about pulling power. You get all the stars on the show!

So, Event Horizon is what I listen to at the gym now 😅

What an amazing episode!

Why 7 ads for a video :(

Aliens: Wow Us: Who dis? Aliens: Sorry, wrong number

Great story about the, WOW signal. I think this event would have gotten greater coverage in the media, however I believe Elvis Presley died around the same time as WOW signal discovery.

I usually hear that lady say: "Slow down. Speed trap ahead!"

Anyone else habitually pause decorative code scroll-bys to see what language they're using and what the code does?

Really enjoy your podcasts! You've got a unique production style. I like how you overlay Bladerunner-esque music on the interviews.

I like the Pepsi bottle analogy, but would take it one step father to say that the tide sweeps the bottle away as you reach for it.

Great episode !

This was a very great video!

So interesting! Thank you JMG.

Playing Elite Dangerous to these videos just feels right.

Should be another good one. Patiently waiting

I am loving these Event Horizon yt's.

Great show!

Thanks for the history lesson.

Seriously super super super awesome....really super interesting!!! Thanks so much John and everyone who made this!!! Thank you Sir Dr. Jerry for this!! What if this was really a extra terrestrial signal!! Wow!!

Thank you so much. Very interesting.

Awesome episode 👍.

Wonderful interview

Such a fascinating mystery, i hope we will get an answer to it at some point, as unlikely as that might be. John, could you make these Event Horizon episodes available in podcast form on Apple Podcasts etc? Would be nice to listen to them on the go. Edit: Spelling.

Love event horizon !! Thank you

The problem with the Drake Equation isn't the answer we get using it, it's the error bars. It predicts 10000 civilizations with +/- 20000. So we have anywhere from 20000 civilizations to negative 100000.

So educational, thank you!

It blows my minds that when we humans sent the transmission to space from the Arecibo Observatory.. .we only sent it ONCE! Why wouldn't we send it at least twice to any given target so that anyone out there would not be stuck with this same one time WOW signal that can not be confirmed?

Here after the proxima signal... its eerie how similar they are.

It was a very good interview, but I wish a couple of questions had been asked: 1. What are the stars in the general direction of the signal source? (Have any been searched for extrasolar planets?) 2. Could the signal have had extragalactic origins?

Great show, anytime in my life when I saw a alien or science show and this WOW signal was in the episode I always got excited just thinking that maybe we did really get a alien signal

This was a fantastic interview, bravo. Just a quick observation, Dr. Ehman's manner of speaking strongly reminds me (in a good way) of Robert Pirsig, the author of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."

If I were Dr Jerry, I’d get a W tattooed on each butt cheek so that when I bent over it’d say “WOW” Really cement his place in the hearts and minds of SETI enthusiasts