Something doesn't seem quite right here. What we call "radio waves" are just light in a certain band of wavelengths. So they're going to look for messages transmitted via light of a different wavelength. That doesn't seem like a big deal for me.
Seems to me that if they're going to search for extraterrestrial light-based communications, they should be searching the entire spectrum--not just the groups of bandwidths into which we subdivide the spectrum.
At no point in the article do they quote one of the researchers saying that great cats purr. I'd say that it's the journalist that screwed up. Basically any technical article written by a journalist is going to be wrong on a few (perhaps major) points. They try to write summaries of research that has taken sometimes decades of work to comprehend, but they only spend a few days researching the topic.
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>Dear sirs, it is my sad duty to inform you that journalistic integrity is dead.
IMO, there can be no journalistic integrity as long as journalism is a for-profit institution.
What we need now is the secret of Geek... err.... Greek Fire!
"Able to completely incinerate a falling silk scarf in midair!"
Something doesn't seem quite right here. What we call "radio waves" are just light in a certain band of wavelengths. So they're going to look for messages transmitted via light of a different wavelength. That doesn't seem like a big deal for me.
Seems to me that if they're going to search for extraterrestrial light-based communications, they should be searching the entire spectrum--not just the groups of bandwidths into which we subdivide the spectrum.
Looks like this is old news.
At no point in the article do they quote one of the researchers saying that great cats purr. I'd say that it's the journalist that screwed up. Basically any technical article written by a journalist is going to be wrong on a few (perhaps major) points. They try to write summaries of research that has taken sometimes decades of work to comprehend, but they only spend a few days researching the topic.
Very reliable... except when they forget to renew their domains... ;)