wraggster
January 30th, 2010, 17:58
US astronomer Frank Drake has told scientists at a special SETI meeting in London that earthlings are making it less likely that we will be heard in space. In the past, we used huge ground stations to broadcast radio and television signals which could be picked up relatively easily — according to astronomers' calculations anyway. Now we use satellites that transmit at 75 watts and point toward Earth instead of into space. In addition, we've switched to digital which makes the transmissions even fainter. Drake has concluded that very soon, in space no one will hear us at all. I guess we'd better keep listening.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/01/30/0650250/Making-It-Hard-For-Extraterrestrials-To-Hear-Us
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/01/30/0650250/Making-It-Hard-For-Extraterrestrials-To-Hear-Us