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From memory, that sunshade needs to be many orders of magnitude bigger than any telescope. Which probably means it would have to be a "cloud" of millions of sm
by BurningFrog 5y ago
From memory, that sunshade needs to be many orders of magnitude bigger than any telescope.
Which probably means it would have to be a "cloud" of millions of smaller shades.
- EZ-Cheeze 5y agoIf enough of a star's light can be blocked by polarized filters, data transmission can occur when they are switched on and off in a pattern. Maybe with the JWST we'll be able to download many different civilizations' Wikipedias if they're blinking their suns at us.