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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
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Subject: Re: visible civilization
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Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 18:46:12 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 18:46:12 1985
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> 
> I believe it was Carl Sagan that wrote once (during the Viking Mars mission)
> that from orbit Earth looks uninhabited, too...I suppose he meant to the 
> naked eye, and on the daylight side...
> 
> -- 
> The above opinions aren't necessarily those of etc, etc...but they
> should be!!
> 
> Roy Turner

There seems to be some confusion here as to what we were all 
originally talking about. Charlie Wingate brought up the point
that the earth was quite bright in the radio region. I said
"no it ain't" and talked about earth being cold, and a poor radio
transmitter compared to the sun, and I threw in a little quip
about stuff that we humans generate will be disrupted by
the earth's atmosphere, the suns atmosphere, attenuation, etc...

Then suddenly people started talking about Carl Sagan...!

What I was refering to was radio noise that we humans make with our
TV transmissions, shortwave transmissions, etc....
Of course, a radio transmission deliberately beamed into space
is going to go somewhere! But that is line of sight transmission,
and not what we were originally discussing anyway. (The original
discussion was about whether or not the earth is visible in the
radio region...we aren't.) 

...end of transmission...


-- 
                           --- Rob DeMillo 
                               Madison Academic Computer Center
                               ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo

 
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