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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
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Subject: Re: Earth's radio brightness
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 14:13:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  9 14:13:53 1985
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> From: Keith F. Lynch 
> 
>   Earth is always brighter than the Sun in the microwave region due
> mainly to high power military radar.  But if a large, highly directional
> antenna such as the one at Aricebo is used, the Earth is, in one direction
> only, on one frequency only, one of the brightest microwave sources in the
> whole galaxy, and can communicate with a similar station 1000 light years
> away.
> 								...Keith

The latter statement is true, but not relavent to the conversation, 
since the original posting involved "the earth sticking out like
a sore thumb." And, unless you happen to be looking from the right
direction at the right time on the right frequency, we aren't.


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