Is Real-Time Communication Between Distant Civilisations In Space Possible? – A Call For Research
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D. E. Tarter. (1997), JBIS, 50, pp.249-252
Refcode: 1997.50.249
Abstract:
In 1960 Frank Drake began the age of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) by examining two stars, Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani, with a single channel receiver. In 1995 he dedicated the Planetary Society’s BETA search at the Harvard Radio Observatory. This search has a capacity of examining nearly a quarter-billion channels simultaneously. According to Drake “for the past 35 years we have averaged doubling our channel capacity every 300 days“. This is a truly astounding progress in signal processing capability.
