Eavesdropping ON The Stars

Astronomers have proposed an improved method of searching for
intelligent extraterrestrial life using instruments like one now under
construction in Australia.
The Low Frequency Demonstrator (LFD) of the Mileura Wide-Field
Array (MWA), a facility for radio astronomy, theoretically could
detect Earth-like civilizations around any of the 1,000 nearest stars.

"Soon, we may be eavesdropping on signals from Galactic civiliza-
tions," says theorist Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics (CfA).
"This is the first time in history that humans will be capable of
finding a civilization like ours among the stars."

Previous SETI programs would not have detected an Earth-like
civilization.
The searches often looked for beacon-like signals deliberately
beamed across space.
Such beacons may not exist. Also, most radio SETI projects exam-
ined frequencies higher than 1 Gigahertz in order to avoid interfer-
ence from both Earth-based and natural cosmic sources.


SOURCE:
PhysOrg.com

Normally I'd have something very interesting to say about this,
but I'm not totally myself right now, so I'll just say I think it's
cool, and leave it at that.


Co9mments, Opinions?

Thanks for the post but there is an earlier link here.

[edit on 9/1/2007 by Umbrax]