Detection of Earth-like Civilizations in Space Now Possible

Mr. McGibby writes "Astronomers have come up with an improved method of looking for extraterrestrial life with an Earth-like civilization. Theorist Avi Loeb proposes to use instruments like the Low Frequency Demonstrator (LFD) of the Mileura Wide-Field Array (MWA), an Australian facility for radio astronomy currently under construction. The array could (theoretically) detect civilizations broadcasting in the same frequencies as our own society. From the article: 'Loeb and Zaldarriaga calculate that by staring at the sky for a month, the MWA-LFD could detect Earth-like radio signals from a distance of up to 30 light-years, which would encompass approximately 1,000 stars. More powerful broadcasts could be detected to even greater distances. Future observatories like the Square Kilometer Array could detect Earth-like broadcasts from 10 times farther away, which would encompass 100 million stars. ' The original paper describes the details."

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Oh please let me be the 241th Slashdotter to say that it won't work because we've been emitting radio waves for only 100 years and that in a few centuries we will stop emitting any radio waves and that because of that aliens are not likely to use radio and must be so advanced that they all have VDSL2 and that they perform every of their communications over cat5 cables or optic fiber.

Seriously I hate it when I see 20 people all getting modded up for bringing up the exact same point