Subject: Re: Are aliens hiding their messages? (was: Fermi paradox)
From: Erik Max Francis
Date: 29/07/2003, 03:28
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.science,sci.astro.seti,alt.sci.seti

Anthony Cerrato wrote:

Looks like a workable method--or maybe more simply, the
interstellar standard communications format/protocols are
based on graviton or neutrino particle/wave technology, or
other ultra-advanced tech we can hardly conceive of (i.e.,
"magic.")

Well, that's okay, since SETI is looking for deliberate signals, not
indirect chatter or accidental spillover.  If you want to talk to the
widest possible audience, you use the simplest means of communication. 
By definition, people using super wiggy zeta particles to communicate
are not going to be found by SETI, but that's okay, since that's not
what SETI is looking for.

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