Re: SETI public: Would We Mistake Signals from ETI?

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LARRY KLAES forwarded:

> University of Michigan physicist Mark Newman, along with biologist Michael Lachmann
>and computer scientist Cristopher Moore, have extended the pioneering 1940s research
>of Claude Shannon to electromagnetic transmissions in a paper published last month in
>the American Journal of Physics called, "The Physical Limits of Communication, or Why
>any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from noise."

This is a paraphrase (without attribution) of Factor's Corollary, first
published on The SETI League website more than nine years ago:

<http://www.setileague.org/editor/magic.htm>

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