Re: Seeking extropian opinion: GIMPS vs SETI?

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon May 17 1999 - 11:55:01 MDT


Christian Weisgerber writes:

> I think the idea is not to search for incidental radio emissions but
> rather for signals that are meant to be found.

We don't send them out, essentially. It seems more prudent to look out
for signatures they cannot avoid than for signals that 'meant' to be
found -- I don't think that looking around the hydrogen line is
extremely smart. There is a lot of hydrogen out there...



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