SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy

Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by ithkuil on Friday September 14, 2018 @02:38AM (#17985137)

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truckload of hard disks.

Latency hardly matters when the majority of the lag is the 100 light year leg: you first spread out your whole message to the surface of the filter with a high bandwidth distribution medium. Then each section of the filter switches in sync, encoding the message without relying on a real-time input from a central location light seconds away

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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by resters on Friday September 14, 2018 @09:45AM (#17987114)

Is it necessary to use the star one is orbiting around?

Why not use an array of smaller polarizers that can be modulated when they block the path of a bright but less adjacent star’s light to the recipient?

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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by rurban on Friday September 14, 2018 @03:14AM (#17985287)

what you are saying could also be: other civilizations would do the same as we do. send small unmanned drones into space, and not just signals. they are much slower, but allow much more information and better reaction time, if the onboard logic does that. and they are not mistaken for something else, as in this case.

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