Notes on Remote Sensing: How to Spot Aliens at a Distance

[james_davis_nicoll]

It is more prudent to observe ETs at a distance. How might that be done? And how might they see us?

Notes on Remote Sensing: How to Spot Aliens at a Distance

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[patrick_morris_miller]

I must add that warp drives are probably not possible.

You're trying to tweak the resident FTL reply guy, aren't you?

[(Anonymous)]

By now that dude is all over that thread.

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Nathan H.

[james_davis_nicoll]

Tor dot com article 547, 2025 article 16

453 articles to go to article 1000.

[(Anonymous)]

Title of this post reads "Notes on Remote Sensing: How to Spot Aliens at a Distance It is more prudent to observe ETs at a di" - which seems wrong

[dwight_benjamin_thieme]

You don't get to join the club until you are able to set up an installation at the focal point of your primary's gravitational lens and knock on clubhouse door.

[kedamono]

When I saw the title, the first thing to pop into my head was the Monty Python sketch: "How Not to Be Seen". Which would explain why we don't see many aliens out there...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nks7C8JzyeA

[philrm]

Where did you get that 10,000 light-year detectability figure for military radars? That sounds improbably large to me, although I'd need my laptop to check the numbers.

[(Anonymous)]

Aren't cetaceans particularly sensitive to that sort of thing? I saw a documentary, "Star Trek IV" ...

Robert Carnegie

[(Anonymous)]

Extraterrestrial Intelligences may notice us but I’m not convinced they’ll find us interesting.

As Terry Bison wrote: “Do we really want to make contact with meat?”