The Possibility Of Finding Traces Of Extraterrestrial Intelligence On Asteroids
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C. Kecskes. (1998), JBIS, 51, pp.175-179
Refcode: 1998.51.175
Abstract:
The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI), as it has been done for at least 30 years, is a search for radio waves with regular patterns. This is based on the assumption that the ET civilisations are using high power transmitters (with wide or moving beams) like those we use for TV stations and radars. This search has been fruitless to date. Many technical reasons are given for this experience (e.g. our receivers are not sensitive enough, high power radio transmitters are not used by “highly developed” civilisations etc.), but many think that there is a serious paradox behind this negative result. On the other hand this paradox is only a weaker form or another paradox: viz the human race (and its technology) originated here on the Earth and was not exported from somewhere else (i.e. the so-called Fermi paradox, which was known already in the 19th century. One may say that “ours is the first (or the only) civilisation in the Universe” but this sounds very much like “the Earth is the centre of the Universe”.
