Actually you did say "never".
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Originally Posted by albania
they just would "never" be able to make anything coherent out of them much less see a rerun of friends or what have you.
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A quick look at wikepedia turned up this little fact,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI
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From 1995 through March 2004, Phoenix conducted observing campaigns at the 64-meter Parkes radio telescope in Australia, the 140 Foot Telescope of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia, USA, and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The project observed the equivalent of 800 stars over the available channels in the frequency range from 1200 to 3000 MHz. The search was sensitive enough to pick up transmitters with power output equivalent to airport radars to a distance of about 200 light years.
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If we have the ability to pick up a signal equivalent to an airport radar, from 200 light years away, then an advanced ET species could surely do the same.