Reply to post: Re: Pollution, right

Memo to scientists. Looking for intelligent life? Have you tried checking for worlds with a lot of industrial pollution?

Richard Tobin

Re: Pollution, right

A similar argument applies to radio signals. Human broadcasts from 50 years ago were easily distinguishable from noise. But modern digital transmissions are compressed, and the more efficiently a signal is compressed the more it resembles noise - any regularities indicate inefficient compression.

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