Joe M wrote:

I just read the following at http://planetary.org/news/2004/seti_signal_0902.html
 

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Now it seems to me that he is making an unfound assumption. Namely of all signals likely to be received from ET are INTENTIONAL signals. I

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For our present Earthly capabilities, assuming 'the intention to be heard' greatly increases _our_ chances of making the detection.

The assumed signal could be an "Hello" message or just a beacon.


And text is much preferred on here. Some still use text news readers.

(Also, html gets thrown out as spam (:-P)

Keep searchin',
Martin