“Late night for Doctor Jerry Ehman, 6EQ and it’s bigger than it came in.” SETI vs the Wow! Signal, The Dandy Warhols, 2012.
The Wow! Signal referenced here by Millennial Alt Rockers the Dandy Warhols is considered by many to be the strongest contender yet detected for a message beamed to Earth from an extraterrestrial civilisation.
Looking through his printouts of data one evening, analyst Jerry Ehman saw something remarkable – a strong and coherent signal that had all the hallmarks of originating from an artificially engineered source in deep space. Dandy Warhols front man Courtney Taylor-Taylor only captures half of the signal in his 2012 lyrics – but in his defence “6EQUJ5” doesn’t scan so well in 4/4 time. What those letters and numbers describe is the changing signal strength in a narrow band of radio wave energy received by the Ohio State University ‘Big Ear’
