I am guessing the Aliens use universal WIFI anyway on the dark matter entropic internet.
The Aliens already responded to Carl's message, SETI just scoffed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CYcp5wObs On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote: > > >> In one of his books, Arthur Clarke suggested deploying a bunch of sensors >> orbiting the sun, and then setting off a gigantic neutron bomb on the other >> side of the sun (away from Earth and other populated planets) to make >> something like an instantaneous x-ray of the solar system . . . >> > > I guess it was a bomb tuned to make gamma rays. It made what you might > call a gigantic radar picture, rather than an x-ray. I don't recall which > book that was in. Radar was one of Arthur's favorite things, since that's > what he did professionally. > > As I recall, it turned into what a programmer would call a "Hello World!" > test. A century later an extraterrestrial civilization responds. > > I have heard that according to recent analyses, radio and television > broadcasts cannot be detected after a few light years. So the scenario > portrayed in the Carl Sagan's "Contact" is impossible. That's a pity. > > - Jed > >
