Re: SPACE: SIRTF survey

From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Sun Aug 24 2003 - 11:59:43 MDT

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    At 07:59 AM 8/21/2003 -0700, Robert Bradbury wrote:
    >Interesting, it looks like the SIRTF telescope *is* going
    >to be used to conduct a fairly large IR survey [1]. Not
    >quite as big as what WIRE was going to do but still probably
    >large enough to pick up MBrains at various temperatures.
    >The 24, 70 and 160 micron wavebands correspond to temperatures
    >of 121K, 41K and 18K respectively. Certainly quite interesting
    >temperatures for moderately advanced MBrains (human body temperature
    >is 311K).

    Care to offer any probability estimates of the chances of seeing
    certain things by certain dates?

    Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
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