but because the data they analyse are often months old, those signals have usually vanishedby the time anyone gets around to checking up on them.
但是因为那些数据大多是几个月之前的,当研究人员有机会回头查看时通常它们都已经消失了。
The most famous example of such delayed discovery, though it long predates the start ofSETIhome, is the so-called Wow! signal.
这类延迟事件最出名的一次,尽管早在在家寻找地外智慧启动之前,是一个被称为Wow!的信号。
This signal, which looked exactly like the sort of thing astronomers had theorised aliensmight use to get in touch was spotted in telescope printouts in 1977.
1977年,这个信号在一个望远镜输出文件中被发现了,它完全符合天文学家理论预测的外星人用来和外界联系的特征。
It was a powerful, finely tuned broadcast at the most important natural frequency for radioastronomersthe one generated by the flipping spin of the electron in a hydrogen atom.
这个信号不仅强烈,而且精确地在射频天文学中最重要的自然频率上发射出来。
But by the time astronomers had noticed it and set their instruments up to double-check, thesignal had vanished.
但是等到天文学家发现并且使用仪器进行二次确认的时候它已经消失了。
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