I am not sure if we will ever find anything the way we are currently searching. Think about it. In the past hundred years our signal processing abilities have gotten better and better and the result is the power we put out is much less and the bands are much narrower. How strong and how small the bands will be in a hundred years? Could we have even detected a cell phone 40 years ago?
Having said all that I am just about hit 12,000 Seti packets. You never know and it just might work.:-)
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Take just about any car, get it going as fast as it will go. Most cars will do at least 100 mph. Lift your right foot quickly off the accelerator. See what happens.
BTW take some extra underwear it will be very interesting for a few seconds.
Totally agree. This sort of logic would have kept Columbus in the old world. Spain had slums then and they have them now. Diverting all of your income to the present with no thought to investing in the future is a mistake no matter how good your intentions.
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I am not sure if we will ever find anything the way we are currently searching. Think about it. In the past hundred years our signal processing abilities have gotten better and better and the result is the power we put out is much less and the bands are much narrower. How strong and how small the bands will be in a hundred years? Could we have even detected a cell phone 40 years ago? Having said all that I am just about hit 12,000 Seti packets. You never know and it just might work. :-)
Take just about any car, get it going as fast as it will go. Most cars will do at least 100 mph. Lift your right foot quickly off the accelerator. See what happens. BTW take some extra underwear it will be very interesting for a few seconds.
Totally agree. This sort of logic would have kept Columbus in the old world. Spain had slums then and they have them now. Diverting all of your income to the present with no thought to investing in the future is a mistake no matter how good your intentions.