Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Earth's radio brightness Message-ID: <1388@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 14:13:53 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1388 Posted: Fri Aug 9 14:13:53 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 05:47:56 EDT References: <3176@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 31 > 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. -- --- Rob DeMillo Madison Academic Computer Center ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo "...That's enough, that's enough! Television's takin' its toll. Turn it off, turn it off! Give me the remote control! I've been nice! I've been good! Please don't do this to me! I've been nice, turn it off, I don't wanna hav'ta see... ...'The Brady Bunch!'"