Here comes the science bit, concentrate: all you space nerds out there will be well aware that ‘the Wow! signal’ was of course a narrowband radio signal detected by Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope back in August 1977. So intense was its strength and so mysterious was its frequency that it was chalked up to being from bloody aliens. Astounded astronomer Jerry R. Ehman simply scribbled Wow! on the initial report.
Ever since their gothic sci-fi masterpiece 2001 album Origin of Symmetry, Muse have been largely preoccupied with matters of life up there and who’s really pulling the strings down here. For frontman Matt Bellamy, his obsession with the stars, conspiracy and the great beyond seems to come from an undying need for answers,…

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