From: Doug Jones (random@qnet.com)
Date: Fri Jul 09 1999 - 11:45:31 MDT
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
> Now, it would appear that the development time for a technological
> civilization from the pre-radio stage to the post-singularity stage
> is ~100 years on a planet similar to ours.
[snip]
> So, for the SETI@home project to work, as has been suggested, by
> "evesdropping" on similar level civilizations, they would have to
> be within ~100 light years of us.
Not quite, I think- the ETIs must only have been broadcasting at the
appropriate time vs distance. If a civilization 950 ly away
trancended 900 years ago, their "fossil" emissions would still be
wafting over us. This increases the number of possible hits
significantly.
-- Doug Jones Will design rockets for food.
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