Lots of signals have gone into space such as TV, radar and radio. The signals have been betraying our presence for 60 years and have passed over about 6000 star systems and are reaching new systems every day. This would seem to be enough, even though we haven’t received anything back yet, but what if [...]
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Best Of The Week Podcast- The History Of The Search For Extraterrestrial Life (SETI)
The story and history of SETI the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The ups and downs of the alien search with Frank Drake and a few critics. //
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An Internet To Span A Galaxy
Wouldn’t it be great to surf to a website and find out about any planet, Star or literally anything else in the galaxy? Just think of all the forums, chat and possibilities for communication that a galaxy wide Internet would give us. Could this be done? It would need a rather long cable. I am [...]
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Using A Laser To Communicate With Aliens
A communication strategy that aliens might use instead of radio signals is to send brief and intense bursts of laser light across the galaxy – sort of like a signal lamp between two ships. Some space telescopes would be ideally suited to pluck out such a signal from the sky background. Why laser beams instead of radio transmitters? [...]
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Talk to the Animals?
My dog is looking at me now it’s barking at me. It always seems to be saying something. But how would I know if it was or not?. I’m not sure if I really want to know what is being said,but perhaps it could be quite useful if I could understand the barks. Perhaps that [...]
