SETI again

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: SETI again

# 8634 bylucioc@... on July 29, 2006, 12:21 a.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

On 7/28/06, Robert wrote:
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> actually they have taken photographs of objects in the ort cloud,
> barely a dot on the film, that is suppose to be about the size of a
> locomotive engine.
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Planet-sized objects like Sedna appear as blurs a few pixels wide
using the Hubble Space Telescope (see
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/hubble_sedna_040414.html), and
one would think that locomotive-sized objects are well below the
minimum size detectable by current technology.