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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by function_seven on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:17PM (#17982145)
I'm assuming parent meant they're communicating across their own world using those forms, and we should be looking for timed puffs of smoke :)
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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by russfink on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:17PM (#17982692)
Fantastic - but at what interval? Our lives may be measured in years, while another life form may measure itself in eons. How rapid must their oscillators be to download their own equivalent of Netflix? 1E-08 Hz? (Can we detect such slow oscillations? Is there a minimum timescale for consciousness?)
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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by function_seven on Thursday September 13, 2018 @07:20PM (#17983569)
Using an SDSSD¹ they wouldn't need to tune to any specific oscillation. Just collect the data and start Fourier-ing it to find the signal.

1: Software-Defined Smoke Signal Detector

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