First Signs of the NTPCkr

Looking forward to this! Way to go Matt and everyone else involved in the project!
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The first rev of the NTPCkr will not be incorporating Astropulse data - at any rate, if Astropulse detected anything that may also be signs of ETI, then SETI@home would have detected it as well.

- Matt

. . . clears throat - uhmmmm, any News to Post here?

what is the likehood of a signal given off by any trasitent alien craft, setalines, being captured by radio telescopes

Lately I have come to believe that this may be a failed strategy. Finding a repeated signal at the same location would mean that a broadcast situation would be in effect. My guess is that only a focused high intensity beam (which would be sprayed in randon directions) could reach us. No broadcasts have been found and we may not be able to find them if they are out to say 1000 light years. There are not that many stars out to that distance. The focused beacon would not repeat since they wouldn't know where we are and our radiation is only our a little more than 100 light years.

I think that if a signal shows signs of having intelligence (non random information) then it should be examined for a "we are here" type of message

At the Lyman Hydrogen line the bit rate (Bandwidth) would be sufficient to acquire a longish message in a fraction of a second. Say, a count of the first 50 prime numbers and then a bitmap image that possibly could identify their home planet. A reply would be meaningless since they would almost surely be more than 100 light years away.

It would be enough probably for us to know that there is someone else and possibly where they were.