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Re: SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others

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Post by traviswingo »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #10
CamperBob2 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And that's why they won't find anything, IMHO. Anyone who spends five minutes thinking about the consequences of deliberately transmitting interstellar beacon signals will conclude that the only safe, sane thing to do is STFU. At the same time, no advanced civilizations will be using coherent RF communications that stand out from the noise floor, because it makes little sense to keep doing that once your civilization…

Anyone who spends five minutes thinking about the consequences of deliberately leaving your house will conclude that the only safe, sane thing to do is stay the fuck inside.

This reads like a Douglas Adams quote

Re: SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others

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Post by serf »

markus_zhang wrote: post #7

I used to run this on my computer in the early 2000s. I wish we had a similar project nowadays.

folding@home is still going I think?

seti@home was definetly a cool screensaver, though.[0]

[0]: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eric-Korpela/publicatio...

Re: SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others

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Post by hkt »

serf wrote: post #12
markus_zhang wrote: post #7

I used to run this on my computer in the early 2000s. I wish we had a similar project nowadays.

folding@home is still going I think? seti@home was definetly a cool screensaver, though.[0] [0]: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eric-Korpela/publicatio...

Folding is still going strong, as is:

https://worldcommunitygrid.org/

Re: SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others

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Post by jacquesm »

cpncrunch wrote: post #8

This assumes that ETs are deliberately transmitting high power signals towards us (or into space in general), although I'm not sure that is a reasonable assumption. I think it would generally be unwise to loudly announce a civilization's presence. According to chatgpt, our current earth-based radio telescopes would only be able to detect signals equivalent to radio leakage from earth at a distance of 1 light year.

But what did you think?

Re: SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others

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Post by abtinf »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #6
bkeyes wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only if you hit the transmit button.

And that's why they won't find anything, IMHO. Anyone who spends five minutes thinking about the consequences of deliberately transmitting interstellar beacon signals will conclude that the only safe, sane thing to do is STFU. At the same time, no advanced civilizations will be using coherent RF communications that stand out from the noise floor, because it makes little sense to keep doing that once your civilization…

Why not just credit the dark forest for this idea?

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Post by jondwillis »

cpncrunch wrote: post #8

This assumes that ETs are deliberately transmitting high power signals towards us (or into space in general), although I'm not sure that is a reasonable assumption. I think it would generally be unwise to loudly announce a civilization's presence. According to chatgpt, our current earth-based radio telescopes would only be able to detect signals equivalent to radio leakage from earth at a distance of 1 light year.

ask chaptgpt about space telescopes

Re: SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others

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Post by dylan604 »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #10
CamperBob2 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And that's why they won't find anything, IMHO. Anyone who spends five minutes thinking about the consequences of deliberately transmitting interstellar beacon signals will conclude that the only safe, sane thing to do is STFU. At the same time, no advanced civilizations will be using coherent RF communications that stand out from the noise floor, because it makes little sense to keep doing that once your civilization…

Anyone who spends five minutes thinking about the consequences of deliberately leaving your house will conclude that the only safe, sane thing to do is stay the fuck inside.

We tried that in 2020. It didn't really work out that well as most people were physically unable to stay the fuck inside.
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