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Originally Posted by Ray Allan
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According to the article, this star is 1800 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. That means the Wow Signal, if it really was intelligently-produced, was sent approximately 1,800 years ago, or during the time of the Roman Empire on Earth. That would mean any hypothetical civilization on a planet orbiting this star had reached a technological level equivalent to our own today. Perhaps they detected Earth and its biosphere of oxygen and liquid water and transmitted this signal in our direction in an attempt to contact another civilization much like we are doing with SETI now. Interesting to speculate, at least.