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Dr.Frank Drake: “Earth becoming invisible to aliens” – Chances of Earth Being Detected by Alien Life Forms are Disappearing
Friday, April 19, 2013 10:20
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Chances of earth being detected by alien life forms are disappearing because of the digital revolution, a leading space scientist has claimed.
Earth becoming invisible from deepest space
Dr Frank Drake said the phasing out of analogue transmissions from television, radio and radar was making our planet electronically invisible from outer space.
While old style signals used to spread out millions of miles into outer space, even reaching some distant stars, digital transmissions are much weaker and therefore are less easy to detect by extra-terrestrial life forms.
Scientists on earth are constantly monitoring the heavens for any sign of transmissions from other planets and it is assumed other life forms out there will be doing the same.
But Dr Drake, who founded the US based organisation Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), 50-years ago, said the phasing out of analogue transmissions was making this virtually impossible.
He said the earth used to be surrounded by a 50 light year wide shell of radiation, with old-style television transmissions generating around one million watts.
But he said with satellites aiming much of their transmissions towards earth now virtually no radiation was escaping into outer space.
He explained: “Now the actual amount of radiation escaping is about two watts, not much more than you get from a cell phone. If this continues into the future, very soon our world will become undetectable.”
Dr Drake said he remained convinced that intelligent life does exist somewhere in the universe but suggested it was likely to be much more advanced than here on earth.
He told a meeting at the Royal Society in London: “We’re going to have to search many more stars and many more frequencies.”
I think this is nonsense. Why do these people think so one dimensionally? As in, perhaps it’s not radio waves that make us detectable in the first place.
I also think it highly likely that any race more superior than our own, would take one look at us and decide that we are destructive war mongering people, who reward ignorance and greed more than intelligence or empathy.
They may have seen how we treat this beautiful blue planet and it’s natural inhabitants, then winder how ling it would be before we attacked them.
They know we are here alright and are avoiding us like the plague we are.
Have mercy in any of the poor buggers who either crashed here or were shot down.
Can you think of anything worse than being probed, tested and tortured by a human?
Just ask your average Guantanimo torture experiment..
They’ll tell you about humanity.
It is the life on this planet that is the true radio waves… two way transmission, in actuality ALL way transmission and reception.
Analog and digital is trumped by THAT WITCH MADE US.
So, i agree with Mr. A Hole… about the story being non-sense.
Very true.