Originally posted by Impetus
If i understand right then yes they can see or lets say, pick up ultraviolet radiation.
Nope, any more than they can pick up gamma rays. Radio telescopes DO pick up electromagnetic waves, that's why they're called radio telescopes.
However, like any EM device, you have to design for the wavelengths you're going to pick up. Thus a radio telescope design won't pick up the entire
range of EM from near-DC to far gamma rays, because the design requirements are so vastly different in different segments of the EM spectrum. It is in
fact a joke specification to require a device to function "from DC to light"
Thus do you have radio telescopes that specialize in LF bands, and others in millimetric bands, maybe up to near 400GHz at the extreme. But for
receiving visible light and beyond, you need something very very different. For visible light, it's generally called a "telescope" and has lenses
and mirrors in. That would include the range of UV she's babbling about. You would not do it with a radio telescope. Nor would you use radio
terminology to describe the signal.
Making the statements that have been posted is a dead giveaway that she's nuts, someone's having you on, or it's a hoax.
I really detest ATS's text editor at times. trying for the fifth time to fix this
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