Washington, DC – The National Geographic Channel said it plans to host a global Twitter event later this month to collect messages aimed at intelligent life on other planets.
The idea, said the network, is to crowdsource a reply from humankind in response to a mysterious 72-second transmission from space – known as “The Wow! Signal” – detected by SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) 35 years ago.
“If The Wow! Signal really was a cosmic ‘tweet’ from our nearest neighbors, we think it’s high time we organized an @reply,” said Christopher Albert, the network’s senior vice president of global communications and talent relations.
The event is scheduled to take place June 29 from 8 p.m. ET-midnight PT, and is loosely tied to National Geographic Channel’s Chasing UFOs series. All messages tagged with the hashtag #ChasingUFOs will be rolled into the reply.
This article was also published in New England Tech Wire.
Related links:
The Wow! Reply – official site
SETI – official site
National Geographic Channel – Chasing UFOs site
Image is from Rovi’s “Angry Birds in Space”
