ftl SETI

Rick Wilson

Has any work been done superimposing disparate swaths of sky to look for
identical, simultaneous signals?

Uncle Al

Rick Wilson wrote:
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> Has any work been done superimposing disparate swaths of sky to look for
> identical, simultaneous signals?

We do not allocate funds to look at things that are both interesting
and possible. Why would we allocate funds to look for things that
contradict extant observations?

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robert bristow-johnson

in article Buvne.1136$IE7.496@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com, Rick Wilson at
fgwilson@sbcglobal.net wrote on 06/02/2005 00:31:

> Has any work been done superimposing disparate swaths of sky to look for
> identical, simultaneous signals?

so, assuming that E.T. isn't hanging just outside the Earth's atmosphere (on
in our solar system), how would E.T. put transmitters spaced hundreds or
thousands of lightyears of apart (in disparate swaths of the sky), and know
to place them roughly equidistant from our solar system, so that the signals
would arrive roughly simultaneously and not separated by hundreds of years?

scanning the skies for E.T. is an intellectually defensible thing to do, but
there is the justifiable limit to the amount of resources spent on the
effort. with that limit, they need to put the resources into ideas that
have at least an ice cube's chance in hell of fruiting.

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