Monday, June 20, 2005

Mile-high cellphones may block ET's call

"'It could be a disaster for us,' says Michael Davis, of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. 'We have incredibly sensitive radio telescopes - even a single cellphone on a plane 100 miles away could cause pretty serious damage.' That is partly because cellphone signals from the sky could be in a telescope's direct line of sight, unlike signals from phones on the ground."

Another good reason to ban the goddamned things.
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3 comments:

  1. razorsmile9:08 PM

    Barely relevant. If ET wants to talk to us badly enough, no number of cellphones is going to stop them.

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  2. Mac9:40 PM

    " If ET wants to talk to us badly enough, no number of cellphones is going to stop them."

    Of course *I* agree with you, but we're talking SETI cultists, here.

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  3. Ken11:50 PM

    "I can see some of them still yakking away while being abducted!"

    Sometimes I wonder how we appear to ET's. Maybe they're just here because they get a kick out of watching our antics. lol.

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