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G’day everyone,
Transient
planet-hunting has become so successful that stories reporting it are
passé. Of late, it seems our focus is on quantity and not quality. I
think we’re purposely being overloaded to numb us to the likelihood that
we are not even close to being alone.
It’s
likely that billions of exoplanets exist in our Milky Way galaxy. Gone
are the days of getting fed such news via a drip-line-and-catheter
approach. These days, it seems we’re continuously having shovel-fulls of related information dumped on us all. So, now we’re numb and getting numb-er.. but wait, there’s more!
CalTech
(California Institute of Technology) has developed an extremely
effective radio-wave antenna and data-mining system for finding the
signatures of transient planets from amid the background noise of our
universe.
Wait until
you read the description of how the CalTech eggheads developed the
computer intelligence to divine exoplanets from out of the murky mess of
universally available radio waves.
The signal-capture devices are embarrassingly prehistoric, but the way they’re aggregated is producing stunning results.
First
off, much of the physical radio dishes consist of not much more than aluminum tubes, pie plates, and chicken wire. The resulting radio antenna, no more than 3-feet in diameter, is then laid out with hundreds more in a semi-random pattern in a California desert. All linked together, this array could easily intercept a mobile-phone call originating on Pluto!
If
you’re into the rush toward Singularity, the conspiracy of drip-feeding
us the reality of extra-terrestrial life, then, you’ll want to read the
rest of the story.
Read more ... https://altaonline.com/the-low-tech-search-for-signs-of-intelligent-life/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Have a nice day.
RJ
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