A telescope built in Australia will make it possible to listen to the internal radio signals of planets within a radius of 30 light years, or about a thousand stars
An artist's depiction of alien civilizations. Figure - CfA - Center for Astrophysics of the Harvard Smithsonian Institution. Courtesy of the "universe today" website
Are we alone in the universe? We won't know until we start looking for life around other stars, or simply listen to them. Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics at the Harvard Smithsonian Institution propose a new method for discovering civilizations like our own if it exists on a planet similar to Earth, around the thousand stars closest to the Sun.
Previous searches for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) signals have estimated that the aliens want us to find them. The searches focused on signals from other stars. Instead, a new survey will look for accidental leaks from alien civilizations. In other words, we will listen to the TV broadcasts, the FM and the military radars.
One device that may help with this is the Mileura wide-field radio telescope, which is being built these days in Australia. It is strong enough to receive signals from a radius of 30 light years, which includes about a thousand stars. More powerful radio observatories, such as the square kilometer array, can pick up transmissions at a distance 10 times greater, expanding the number of searchable stars to 100 million stars.
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Who said they have television, and even if there is, the broadcasts will be very weak and they will sound like normal noise, the earth is only at 0.6 the beginning of the information curve, they must already be using the entire solar system for their own benefit and we haven't even started on our planet and there are probably other twits who use the power The infinity of the black hole is in their favor, so don't be so happy if they turn against us, maybe it's "set on fire" think about the possible consequences of this thing
Reception of signals from a thousand stars greatly increases the probability of discovering life beyond our "very tiny" star.
Great, we can watch alien porn..
Bombs! Receive TV broadcasts from another world for the first time.