{"id":234866,"date":"2010-01-27T01:02:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T06:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/?p=5481"},"modified":"2010-01-27T01:02:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T06:02:07","slug":"digital-age-earth%e2%80%99s-signal-gets-weaker-for-%e2%80%98any-ets-out-there%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/234866","title":{"rendered":"Digital-age Earth\u2019s Signal Gets Weaker for \u2018Any ETs Out There\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Scotsman.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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SATELLITE TV and the digital revolution is making humanity more and more invisible to inquisitive aliens on other planets<\/div>\n

That might be good news for anyone who fears an Independence Day -style invasion by little green men. But it is also likely to make the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence by Earthly scientists harder.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Royal Society<\/a> in London, Dr Frank Drake, the world\u2019s leading ET hunter, said the digital age was effectively gagging the Earth by cutting the transmission of TV and radio signals into space.<\/p>\n

At present, the Earth was surrounded by a 50 light year-wide \u201cshell\u201d of radiation from analogue TV, radio and radar transmissions, he said.<\/p>\n

But although the signals had spread far enough to reach many nearby star systems, they were rapidly vanishing before the march of digital technology<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[Read more at Scotsman.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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