[LINK] Customers may be forced on to NBN to keep phones

[Kim Holburn]

On 2010/Oct/12, at 2:52 PM, Birch, Jim wrote:
> I remember reading the idea somewhere in an analysis of the SETI  
> Project
> that the radio visibility of advanced life forms - such as us, huh?  
> - on
> planets at astronomical distances may only exist for fairly short
> periods in their histories.  Fairly soon after the locals develop the
> technology for high-powered radio transmission, NBN-like projects will
> become economically and technically preferable and take over from  
> radio
> fairly quickly.

Fermi Paradox.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fermi_paradox

I read recently that the diffuse communications radiation from earth  
could only be detectable as such from quite a short distance (in light  
years) due to noise and general attenuation.  Which is kind of good,  
really, if true.  I can't seem to find the exact reference but this is  
similar:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/ 
Fermi_paradox#Communication_is_impossible_for_technical_reasons

> Based on terrestrial evidence, we can reasonably expect
> that this process will be - or has been - accompanied by the vehement
> denunciations of little green naysayers.


;-)

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