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HenryS Posted Jul 10, 2001
Um...I think this involves quite a lot of material from another site. Doing a google search for 'Interfering noise (in red)' found a setiathome page with large chunks of this article in it.
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Hoovooloo Posted Jul 10, 2001
You've missed out two important concepts. (1) von Neumann machines. No need to build millions of probes to search the galaxy for life. Build just the one probe, but make it self replicating. Send it out, when it gets to the next system it builds a copy of itself, sends that out, refuels and moves on. So in the next stage there are two probes, four on the next, then eight, sixteen, thirty-two, etc. etc. Even if the probes move at only a fraction of lightspeed, before long (i.e. a couple of million years, say) the galaxy is full of the damn things. This brings us on to (2) The Fermi paradox. We've thought of the von Neumann machine concept. It won't be *that* long before we can build it. If there are other civilisations out there, it's reasonable to assume that at least some of them are more advanced than we are. So the question - the Fermi paradox - is, where are their von Neumann probes? Where are there generation starships? Where are there signals? Look on Ray Kurzweil's web page for info on why that influential thinker believes SETI will fail.
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Mikey the Humming Mouse - A3938628 Learn More About the Edited Guide! Posted Jul 10, 2001
More importantly, this topic is currently being covered by a h2g2 University project. Admittedly, this project has been slow going, and could probably use your help. Check out this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A355312
Mikey
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Mikey the Humming Mouse - A3938628 Learn More About the Edited Guide! Posted Jul 10, 2001
Oh, and there are also lots of other good guide entries on SETI here at h2g2.
A538382 seti - 46%
A292024 SETI - 45%
A473555 SETI - 45%
A411652 SETI@home - 29%
A407530 Improving Seti@Home Processor Times
Ideally, the useful info from these will be included in any edited guide entry on the topic.
Mikey
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Aug 10, 2001
Any comment from you, 404?
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caper_plip Posted Aug 27, 2001
It seems that 404 has deleted this entry...
Now what to do with it?
Caper Plip
(annoyed that she can't watch the US Open on BBC)
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- 4: Mikey the Humming Mouse - A3938628 Learn More About the Edited Guide! (Jul 10, 2001)
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