Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E...
by vectorjohn on Friday July 24, 2015 @04:19PM
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The reason they have to filter out artificial sources, and the only reason they're a problem, is we are literally right on top of the source. These aren't even as far away as, say, Mars. New Horizons, for example, can't communicate with Earth unless it points its transmitter / receiver directly at us. And that's in our own solar system! Only a few light hours away.
Just think about it. The signals are going to be so weak by the time the photons get here they will be indistinguishable from the CMB.
Just think about it. The signals are going to be so weak by the time the photons get here they will be indistinguishable from the CMB.