Re: SPACE: SIRTF survey

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Aug 24 2003 - 21:04:34 MDT

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At 02:57 PM 8/24/03 -0400, Eliezer wrote:

>> Care to offer any probability estimates of the chances of seeing
>> certain things by certain dates?
>
>Intuitively, the odds seem like they should be in the range of a
>thousand-to-one for any technological artifacts being spotted

If they're trying to camouflage themselves the chances are low that any
technological artifacts will be spotted, but they might well be *mottled*.

Damien Broderick

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