Under our Night Sky
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Using Radio Waves to Detect Extraterrestrial Neighbors
We're building gigantic telescopes that will measure radio waves from the universe. One way is to look for things like us, and if they exist we could see or hear them. Or even just simply radar, a radio transmissions communications t v ar, maybe e t will be watching home and away you. I think i saw that it would detect an aircraft landing radar within 50 light years. That's right. It quite the thing. And am, you know, the different waysto for life, and whether it's looking at the composition of an atmosphere of a distant star.
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