From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun Sep 17 2000 - 22:51:31 MDT
<Spudboy100@aol.com> Wrote:
>If one sends an "archived" message em signals of all types including gammma
>ray photons could conceivably blow parts of a sustained message away.
Please explain how a gamma ray photon could blow a radio photon away.
>We have just had (for 40 years) the experience of receiving signals, because the
>testing of sending signals has not been a technologically achivable option yet :)
>i.e we have no large receiveing antena even circling the Oort cloud to confirm how well
> signals travel.
Oh come on now! We've bounced RADAR signals off the moons of Neptune, are you saying that
when outgoing signals go a little further out they come to a screeching halt for some mysterious
reason but incoming signals don't? You're being silly.
>As for neutrinos-they penetrate everything, almost.
Yea, and they penetrate your receiver too making them almost impossible to detect.
For about a thousand dollars you could make a device that can detect trillions of
radio photons every second from billions of light years away. For about 10 million
dollars you could make a device able to detect one neutrino a month from the sun.
I can't imagine a worse medium of communication than neutrinos.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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