October 20th, 2008
Podcast: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Written by Astronomy Cast
Artist's impression of the Allen Array. Image credit: SETI Institute
You know what this show needs? More aliens. Since we don't seem to have any visiting right now, we're going to have to find some. SETI is an acronym. It stands for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. But there's more to SETI than just putting up a radio telescope and hoping to catch a glimpse of an alien television broadcast.
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October 21st, 2008 at 7:11 am
A question for the SETI tech team: How much detectable RF any mode signal in watts might remain from, say, a 10,000,000 watt transmission from earth traveling 4.3 light years distance to the Alpha C system?
October 21st, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Thanks yoogih, we can use an improvement in our gene pool
October 22nd, 2008 at 6:42 am
To Yoogih, The clip is a low quality fake.