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I'm not a radioastronomer, but I'm fairly sure that if I went next door and talked to one they'd laugh their heads off at the suggestion.
by planetguy 14y ago
I'm not a radioastronomer, but I'm fairly sure that if I went next door and talked to one they'd laugh their heads off at the suggestion.
- rogerbinns 14y agoDo they have any better explanations for the Fermi paradox then? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
- planetguy 14y agoNo, but they know how to estimate the effect of an inhomogeneity in the interstellar medium on radio wave propagation.
- freehunter 14y agoPut your wireless router on top of a microwave then start a Skype call. Before your Hot Pocket turns molten, let me know how good of a connection you have. It's not a far stretch of the imagination to say radio waves can suffer from interference and even reflection off magnetic fields. It happens here on Earth; bouncing shortwave off the ionosphere is a very common way to communicate long distances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywave
- eternauta3k 14y agoHow is ionospheric reflection related to your claim?
- freehunter 14y agoSignals bouncing off a strongly magnetic bubble. The microwave was a separate but related example of electromagnetic interference on radio transmissions. Both combined paint a picture showing it's possible we might not hear from Voyager again and might not get a good picture of intelligent transmissions outside the heliosphere.