Lights in the sky?

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Q Send message Joined: 15 Jun 04 Posts: 216 Credit: 329,924 RAC: 0	Message 1168584 - Posted: 6 Nov 2011, 8:54:39 UTC
	Ahoy, shipmates! Lights of big cities as indications of extraterrestrial, technologically advanced life? Happened to notice an article by Messrs. Abraham Loeb and Edwin L. Turner: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.6181. Regards PK
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Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 2766 Credit: 1,549,893 RAC: 1,966	Message 1168670 - Posted: 6 Nov 2011, 17:17:22 UTC - in response to Message 1168584.
	Ahoy, shipmates! Lights of big cities as indications of extraterrestrial, technologically advanced life? Happened to notice an article by Messrs. Abraham Loeb and Edwin L. Turner: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.6181. Regards PK This is going to be interesting to follow. At least something may be detected that showed intelligent life, out there, may have existed eons of years ago. ____________ The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.
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Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 684 Credit: 64,340 RAC: 77	Message 1169067 - Posted: 8 Nov 2011, 3:17:59 UTC
	How good would a telescope have to be to detect light on the night side of a planet orbiting the nearest star with planets ____________ Bob DeWoody
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Chris S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 23353 Credit: 4,628,947 RAC: 3,737	Message 1170715 - Posted: 13 Nov 2011, 12:19:16 UTC
	The search can be extended beyond the Solar System with next generation telescopes on the ground and in space, which would be capable of detecting phase modulation due to very strong artificial illumination on the night-side of planets as they orbit their parent stars. Fair point Bob, we are talking next generation tescopes which haven't been designed/invented yet.
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