[RFI] SETI

[transistor <transistor@charter.net>]

The book Earth As a Distant Planet talks about this, too.  Two things jumped 
out at me.

It states the U.S. Naval Space Surveillance radar (the picket fence radar 
located in the Midwest) would be detectable now at 60 light years distance, 
with an Arecibo type antenna.  

There is also an estimate that the Starfish atomic test from the early '60's 
could be detected in X-ray emissions out 400 AU.  I haven't done the math but 
400 AU is probably not all that far in light years.

Of all the comments on this topic so far, Mr. Haas' have been the best.

Scott

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