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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by saagarjha on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:45PM (#17982931)
The issue with high frequency communication is the power needed to sustain it, since energy goes up as wavelength decreases.
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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by dhimes on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:59PM (#17983454)
I suspect that's not the biggest issue. Developing the tech to create a and detect a modulated wave at these frequencies is way bigger, IMHO. You might be using nuclei as detectors, for example.

But in my imagination I can see this being solved.

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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by Procrastes on Friday September 14, 2018 @02:36AM (#17985125)
Maybe it looks something like this:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611977/get-ready-for-atom...

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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by dhimes on Friday September 14, 2018 @08:33AM (#17986715)
Yeah- maybe using a nuclear version of this ("Rydberg nuclei?"). Thanks for the link!
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