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SETI founder wants off-world listening post

By T.K. Randall
February 21, 2010 · Comment icon 5 comments

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Frank Drake has expressed an interest in sending out a spacecraft to listen for alien signals where they'd be easier to pick up.
By sending the listening post 82 billion kilometers from the Earth the gravitational lensing effect from our sun would help focus signals from distant regions of space and make them easier to detect.
Frank Drake, the founder of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), wants to take the search for aliens further: about 82 billion kilometres away, in fact. At this point in space, electromagnetic signals from planets orbiting distant stars would be focused by the gravitational lensing effect of our sun, making them, in theory, more easily detected.


Source: New Scientist | Comments (5)




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Comment icon #1 Posted by REBEL 14 years ago
Drake says, that intelligent civilisations have built an intergalactic internet using such techniques and are just "waiting for us to log on". Send out a message; Download Google/Firefox!
Comment icon #2 Posted by stevoid2005 14 years ago
if the aliens access our net they would be put off us e.g alien gets to google types in human anatomy to research us then up pops pay $19.99 to see this tight teen take a 12" c**k right up her a**e haha probly thinking what a race of perves or they have already accessed our net and now are destroyed by a lethal trojan virus or malware and now there back at the iron age plotting there revenge lol or there in a neverending circle of pages trying to get a free iphone lol and we access there internet "pay 19.99 credits to see zog and her 30 nipples take a 35ft congupa up her tight deringi 18 pinni... [More]
Comment icon #3 Posted by kobolds 14 years ago
don't waste money . all the probe we sent out until now already equip with such function .
Comment icon #4 Posted by theQ 14 years ago
Since the evidence is so clear that aliens are among us that when i hear people from seti talk like somehow we need to know if other intelligent life is out there when the evidence is clear....i can only conclude...1.willfull denial..2.stupid as a block of wood or 3. just trying to keep their job.
Comment icon #5 Posted by SolarPlexus 14 years ago
Since the evidence is so clear that aliens are among us that when i hear people from seti talk like somehow we need to know if other intelligent life is out there when the evidence is clear....i can only conclude...1.willfull denial..2.stupid as a block of wood or 3. just trying to keep their job. haha


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