{"id":99,"date":"2006-07-27T03:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=99"},"modified":"2006-07-27T03:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T03:07:00","slug":"seti-why-it-wont-find-alien-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2006\/07\/27\/seti-why-it-wont-find-alien-signals\/","title":{"rendered":"SETI &#8211; Why It Won&#8217;t Find Alien Signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/searchforlife\/seti_beingsure_010405.html\">Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute wrote an article which describes in brief what will happen when a candidate signal is received.<\/a>  It does leave out some of the verification tests, but you will note in this article that when it looks like a real signal, the astronomer will then call his buddies elsewhere in the world and have them verify.  As the article states, &#8220;The process will take several days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the major flaw in existing SETI protocols.  The chance alignment of transmitting and receiving antennas will not remain for &#8220;several days&#8221;.  No increase in receiver sensitivity, the number of channels, or signal to noise ratio, will resolve this issue.<\/p>\n<p>What SETI needs is some way to verify, close to instantly, the reception of a signal at multiple locations around the planet.  This requires international co-operation which is in short supply. International rape and pillaging seems to be the rule of the day. Without resolving this issue, SETI will not detect alien signals.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute wrote an article which describes in brief what will happen when a candidate signal is received. It does leave out some of the verification tests, but you will note in this article that when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2006\/07\/27\/seti-why-it-wont-find-alien-signals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}