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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wheatydigger, post: 1428214, member: 35607&quot;]The year I am doing is 1977. It was a truly great year for science and technology.</p><p>On january 1977 during the consumer electronics show in chicago, The worlds first all in one computer was demonstrated. It included a keyboard, Tape storage, and screen. It was called the commodore PET, and it had just 4-8 Kb of RAM. Apple inc. was also incorporated this year in january.</p><p><br /></p><p>In febuary, 2 space shuttles were launched. The Soviet union launched it&#039;s Soyuz 24, and the first test taxi flight of the space shuttle enterprise was launched. The Soyuz was heading to the space station salyut 5,but the crew was forced to end their mission abruptly. Enterprise is currently at the smithonian&#039;s air and space museum. </p><p><br /></p><p>A very strange occurrence happened on august 15, 1977. The Big Ear telescope picked up a strong narrowband radio signal which lasted for 72 seconds. This was called the WOW! signal, and it got it&#039;s name from when Jerry R. Ehman wrote WOW! on the paper which recorded the signal. The reason this was impressive is because the signal had to be coming from somewhere far away in outer space, maybe even from intelligent extra terrestrial life. After a while of some complex mathematical equations, scientists finally found that the location of the signal came from somewhere near the star Tau Saggittari. Unfortunetally, The signal was not found again, and even if we would send a signal back it would take many decades to reach the origin of the WOW! signal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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