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

[Adrian Chadd]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010, Kim Holburn wrote:

> 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

Not just that - we're now doing all kinds of spread spectrum related stuff.
Figure that one out without knowing the encoding function. :)

(Hint - there's been some research into it; but it's not obvious.
Not obvious like "look for a spike at one frequency" methods. :)



Adrian

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