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Humanity is totally visible to extraterrestrials

February 24, 2013 | Comment icon 24 comments
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At a meeting of the Royal Society in London, in trying the explain the current failure of SETI to discover extraterrestrial civilizations, Frank Drake said that phasing out analog transmissions from TV, radio, and radar is making our planet electronically invisible from outer space, because while an old-style TV transmitter might generate a million watts, the power of a digital satellite signal is around twenty watts.

The digital revolution does not make civilizations invisible to extraterrestrial search. On the contrary, the electromagnetic radiation of our civilization is getting stronger and stronger, and we are sending an increasing amount of radio waves into space.

Today, WHKY-TV’s (an independent TV station in North Carolina) digital signal now operates at 600,000 watts, roughly equivalent to 1.2 million watts for an analog transmitter. The station currently has a construction permit to boost its power to 950,000 watts.

CBS 8 shut off its analog transmitter in late 2008. Now it is sending out a digital signal at one million watts.

On June 6, 2011, the Federal Communications Commission granted WAND, an NBC-affiliated TV station, a construction permit to move its digital frequency back to its former analog allotment, and to operate its digital signal at the maximum one million watts.

Military and science radars are also sending out millions of watts.

The transmitter system of HAARP is officially able to produce approximately 3.6 million watts of radio frequency power. The pulsed or continuous signal is sent into the ionosphere. According to some researchers, the output power can reach up to 300 million watts and the military has patents to boost this power output to over a hundred billion watts. These high figures of billions of watts are still unconfirmed officially.

The Russian missile defense and early warning radar Don-2N, which can also track space vehicles, is capable of monitoring air space at an altitude of 40,000 km (24,860 miles). It transmits extremely powerful radio pulses of 250 million watts. Russia has even more powerful radars. The other major military powers in the world have similar radar systems, too. Civilizations are using powerful signals in radio astronomy to explore the local star system and for communication with their probes and spaceships.

The number of TV transmitters, military and science radars, and so on, all around the world and in orbit is increasing. Their power output is also increasing.

The total level of electromagnetic noise from the inhabited planets is also growing. The electromagnetic radiation from Earth will travel thousands of light-years away.

The digital revolution is making the civilizations much more visible to extraterrestrial search.

Some scholars, including Stephen Hawking, are concerned that the deliberate sending of radio signals into deep space and the leakage radiation could be a serious risk, because we are revealing the location of our planet to hostile alien civilizations.

There have even been calls for a moratorium on deliberate radio transmissions into deep space to attract the attention of aliens.

There is absolutely no need to worry about this. The advanced civilizations from our Galaxy know that we exist and know exactly where we are. The spectral analysis of Earth’s atmosphere alone is enough to reveal us, because it is specific to planets with complex life and technological civilizations. We cannot hide our atmosphere.

According to the second law of thermodynamics, the advanced civilizations create entropy in the form of waste heat that is drifting into outer space. It is impossible to hide the faint entropy glow.

The advanced technological civilizations from our Galaxy know where we are and what is our level of development.

For the mega-civilizations, these are mature intelligences managed to abandon their dying home universes, we are like a Monopoly game on the table, next to the sandwiches and the beer. We are totally visible, accessible, and manipulable.[!gad]At a meeting of the Royal Society in London, in trying the explain the current failure of SETI to discover extraterrestrial civilizations, Frank Drake said that phasing out analog transmissions from TV, radio, and radar is making our planet electronically invisible from outer space, because while an old-style TV transmitter might generate a million watts, the power of a digital satellite signal is around twenty watts.

The digital revolution does not make civilizations invisible to extraterrestrial search. On the contrary, the electromagnetic radiation of our civilization is getting stronger and stronger, and we are sending an increasing amount of radio waves into space.

Today, WHKY-TV’s (an independent TV station in North Carolina) digital signal now operates at 600,000 watts, roughly equivalent to 1.2 million watts for an analog transmitter. The station currently has a construction permit to boost its power to 950,000 watts.

CBS 8 shut off its analog transmitter in late 2008. Now it is sending out a digital signal at one million watts.

On June 6, 2011, the Federal Communications Commission granted WAND, an NBC-affiliated TV station, a construction permit to move its digital frequency back to its former analog allotment, and to operate its digital signal at the maximum one million watts.

Military and science radars are also sending out millions of watts.

The transmitter system of HAARP is officially able to produce approximately 3.6 million watts of radio frequency power. The pulsed or continuous signal is sent into the ionosphere. According to some researchers, the output power can reach up to 300 million watts and the military has patents to boost this power output to over a hundred billion watts. These high figures of billions of watts are still unconfirmed officially.

The Russian missile defense and early warning radar Don-2N, which can also track space vehicles, is capable of monitoring air space at an altitude of 40,000 km (24,860 miles). It transmits extremely powerful radio pulses of 250 million watts. Russia has even more powerful radars. The other major military powers in the world have similar radar systems, too. Civilizations are using powerful signals in radio astronomy to explore the local star system and for communication with their probes and spaceships.

The number of TV transmitters, military and science radars, and so on, all around the world and in orbit is increasing. Their power output is also increasing.

The total level of electromagnetic noise from the inhabited planets is also growing. The electromagnetic radiation from Earth will travel thousands of light-years away.

The digital revolution is making the civilizations much more visible to extraterrestrial search.

Some scholars, including Stephen Hawking, are concerned that the deliberate sending of radio signals into deep space and the leakage radiation could be a serious risk, because we are revealing the location of our planet to hostile alien civilizations.

There have even been calls for a moratorium on deliberate radio transmissions into deep space to attract the attention of aliens.

There is absolutely no need to worry about this. The advanced civilizations from our Galaxy know that we exist and know exactly where we are. The spectral analysis of Earth’s atmosphere alone is enough to reveal us, because it is specific to planets with complex life and technological civilizations. We cannot hide our atmosphere.

According to the second law of thermodynamics, the advanced civilizations create entropy in the form of waste heat that is drifting into outer space. It is impossible to hide the faint entropy glow.

The advanced technological civilizations from our Galaxy know where we are and what is our level of development.

For the mega-civilizations, these are mature intelligences managed to abandon their dying home universes, we are like a Monopoly game on the table, next to the sandwiches and the beer. We are totally visible, accessible, and manipulable.



Alexander Popoff, The Hidden Alpha
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Comment icon #15 Posted by Lilly 12 years ago
Not really. By far most of our broadcasts are drowned out in background noise by the time they reach the edge of the solar system.... Exactly. In order for ET to 'know we're here' they'd have to use some other method. Also, I tend to think that in order for ET to deem it worthwhile to pay us a visit they'd have to have some compelling reason. I honestly wonder if ET would actually care that much...even if they were to find us.
Comment icon #16 Posted by badeskov 12 years ago
Exactly. In order for ET to 'know we're here' they'd have to use some other method. Also, I tend to think that in order for ET to deem it worthwhile to pay us a visit they'd have to have some compelling reason. I honestly wonder if ET would actually care that much...even if they were to find us. Exactly, Lilly. I can't help thinking that the ET race capable of detecting our presence AND traveling here would probably have done that extensively already and we would just be another data set to visit when convenient, if ever. The ones really intersted would probably be close to our technological l... [More]
Comment icon #17 Posted by Frank Merton 12 years ago
It's not our signals that will give us away; it's the free oxygen in our atmosphere. Once they get a spectrum of the Earth, they will immediately signal it as a planet of interest. It won't take much more for an advanced science to figure out what we are and at what level.
Comment icon #18 Posted by keithisco 12 years ago
Not really. By far most of our broadcasts are drowned out in background noise by the time they reach the edge of the solar system. Contrary to common belief, very few radio signals emitted from Earth actually has the power and directivity to be picked up outside of the Solar system. Cheers, Badeskov It really depends on the sensitivity of the Instrumentation that is collecting the "noise" and its ability to determine what is background, and what is signal. Terrestrially, radio astronomy is making enormous advances in this area, and information that was simply undetectable 20 years ago is now t... [More]
Comment icon #19 Posted by the L 12 years ago
,,,who am I to try and figure out what ET would do. Cheers, Badeskov Good observation. Cheers, L
Comment icon #20 Posted by Occams Razor 12 years ago
Very small signals can be detected over significant distances with good equipment. The transmitter on the voyager spacecraft is only a quarter of a watt yet can still be received here on Earth by NASA. It is now so far away that the signals from it take 18hrs to get here, that's at around 186000 miles per second. You wouldn't hear it on anything you could build at home though. Digital TV from satellites is relatively low power and beamed towards the planet so it is not going to be easily detectable over any significant distance. Terrestrial digital TV transmitters are still high power and radi... [More]
Comment icon #21 Posted by krypter3 12 years ago
I for one would hope that a civilisation that's is apparently far more advanced than us, would be more enlightened to simply make the same mistakes we have in the past. This isn't a hollywood movie. If we as a people are capable of seeing what we did back in the day was wrong now, then why should an advanced civilisation be any less enlightened. Though there is a possibility they are a war like species. But we can only go up, sooner or later it needs to be done. I just don't want to be so quick to believe that an alien species would just be so narrow minded as to wipe us off the map.
Comment icon #22 Posted by Occams Razor 12 years ago
I for one would hope that a civilisation that's is apparently far more advanced than us, would be more enlightened to simply make the same mistakes we have in the past. This isn't a hollywood movie. If we as a people are capable of seeing what we did back in the day was wrong now, then why should an advanced civilisation be any less enlightened. Though there is a possibility they are a war like species. But we can only go up, sooner or later it needs to be done. I just don't want to be so quick to believe that an alien species would just be so narrow minded as to wipe us off the map. It probab... [More]
Comment icon #23 Posted by nothinglizx2 12 years ago
That whole bulleton was written around the idea that Aliens are stupid. They aren't stupid, they've been around longer, they've been guiding us behind the scene's often times from within our own cultures. Our dimension isn't the only dimension. There are other dimensions from which the alien can observe us and effect us from. Although we want them to land and approach us and bedazzle us with their technology and their difference, they know all to well that should this happen, they would be met with fear. There is two polarities on this earth the positive and the negative, sad to say though tha... [More]
Comment icon #24 Posted by hammerclaw 12 years ago
To truly advanced and fully evolved entities beyond our solar system--if they take notice of us, at all--we are nothing more than crickets, chirping in the dark. To them, we are primitive and arrogant specks of protoplasm, puffed up with pride because our species has become adept at chipping flint. We are tiny, finite and insignificant, save to ourselves, and the universe is vast, infinite and timeless. That shriveled little man in the wheelchair is right; we should proceed with great caution. Our blue planet is a verdant oasis in a vast cosmic desert, and an ideal place, perhaps, for another ... [More]


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