Wednesday, June 13, 2012

ET contact within two dozen years?

Seth Shostack of the SETI Institute thinks it's likely, as seen in his recent TED Talk.  Why so soon?  Cut to the chase: Moore's Law applies to radio telescope signal processing, and the processing-limited searchable number of stars is fast converging with the actual number of stars within reach.
OK, Shostack rambles a bit and ends on a sappy "do it for the children" note, but there's much food for though in the talk.  At only eighteen minutes and change it's worth a whirl.

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