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All of what I wrote down is maybe two terms in the Drake Equation. Extrapolating from a single data point is, well, better than from...
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Whale oil. Peat. Charcoal. Alien-bovine gas emissions. I don't see this as an insurmountable problem, although it might slow things...
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From your reply, I assume that this is being done by SETI in the radio frequency band. Thanks for your answer. I am always trying to...
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You gain a factor ~1 million from a directional emission, and another factor ~1 billion from emitting in a narrow frequency range, and...
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Something no one has even mentioned so far is that if it takes 100 years for a signal to get somewhere and another 100 years for the...
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Thank you for your reply. I did learn something. Therefore the probability is that there is no intelligent and technically advanced life...
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Well, when you looked it up on Wikipedia, you would have discovered there are 130 K, G and F type stars within 50 light years. You also...
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Of great concern is the reception of a signal from an exoplanet. Is it even possible? On Earth, how can we receive a signal by pointing...
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I had researched the number of stars and possible exoplanets around those stars at various distances from Earth. At 5,000 light years a...
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Granted that life exists somewhere. Just by stating that are 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy tends to make us believe that...
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