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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  4772 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Light of Alien Cities
I wouldn't mind seeing the whole thing re-assessed from a non-idiotic point of view. The fact that the foundation for SETI is the Drake Equation robs them of credibility in my opinion.




mk  ·  4772 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yes, I always thought the Drake equation was pretty much worthless.

It is interesting that SETI just looks at the hydrogen line frequency. At least they did last time I checked. http://www.setileague.org/askdr/hydrogen.htm But IMO the reasoning for that is a bit better than city lights.

kleinbl00  ·  4772 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Well that was a fucking wormhole. From hydrogen emission lines to the Wow! signal to pulsars mistaken for SETI contacts to a Joy division album and then back to refresh myself on the Kardashev scale.