WoW signal

[Shekinah]

Cruise missiles and drones now are very smart and able to make targeting decisions. Some drones look for targets of opportunity to take out while en-route to a primary target. Be nice to Artificial Intelligence least it turn on ye. Stephen Hawking is probably correct that AI will one day tire of tolerating us stupid humans.

[SpiritTalker]

Snow & FBF, my dad was in radio in WW2, stationed in Belgum, and had home CB & ham radios. He said he climbed poles & installed wires behind enemy lines. No other associations were ever mentioned, and he became a city policeman until he retired.

Shekinah, my iPad is smarter than I am. Heck, so is my toaster!

[SnowCat]

My dad was a Tech Sgt in the Army Air Corps in WWII. I think he was stateside the whole time. He used to talk about Boca Chica and Boca Raton in FL. I need proper Internet at some point so I can use my laptop instead of my phone and research dome of this.

Snow

[planewalker]

There is the possibility that the WOW signal was a beacon that the earth passed through. It could have been an episode of "I LOVE ICKY". There is a wave front of our signals going out in all directions that we send out into space. It's been heading out more heavily every year. The receiver was modern for the time but was only able to tell it was a directed signal by it modulation on the hydrogen band. Another problem with radio (or anything other then QE as Shekinah pointed out) is that everything is moving at different speeds in 3 dimensions. The signal could have come from any distance and been directed on an unknowable course by gravitational lensing. As far as computing power; a decent watch has more computation power than NASA used to put man on the Moon.