I simply don't know. Maybe they don't use radiowaves. At the scale of Universe they damn slow as turtle. Maybe they use something else we still don't know about.

Anyaway, my comp most of the time doing nothing - why shouldn't i try and help? More interesting is algorhytm of detection suspiciosus signals. If there's some kind of omission?

I heard in a documentary that our own signals begin to decay after two light years travel in interstellar space so aliens ain't watching "I Love Lucy" sixty light years from here now! So what's to say that alien radio transmissions don't suffer similar degrdation? Unless they signal to us using lasers?
P.S. even if the odds are slim due to the size of the problem and drawbacks in the setup of the SETI project I think it's well worth the effort and the time we invest on our pcs.

Hi folks!
I found this video some weeks ago and it seems there are good chances to find/get positive results in a few years from now. The Kepler mission is taking care of lots of possible Earth-like planets, not only the size of the gas gigants like Saturn or Jupiter, but the size of x2 or x3 times that of our planet, with rocky surface and orbiting inside the range of the Goldilocks zone.
I don´t think the long wave spectrum of EM emissions will be the carrier of good news, like radio waves. They get too faint when traveling long distances.


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Garik Israelian is a spectroscopist, studying the spectrum emitted by a star to figure out what it's made of and how it might behave.
It's a rare and accessible look at this discipline, which may be coming close to finding a planet friendly to life.-----Garik Israelian: What's inside a star?

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