| Subject: Re: What do we expect of SETI, though. |
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| Date: 29/11/2003, 07:02 |
| Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti |
If the Arecibo radio telescope could be transported to Alpha Centauri, scaled up in size and then pointed back towards Earth, then a telescope with a diameter of over 33,000 kilometers would be required to detect UHF television pictures leaked from Earth. This is equivalent to a dish diameter just over two and a half times the diameter of the entire Earth. source: http://www.computing.edu.au/~bvk/astronomy/HET608/essay/