Re-observations

"Alfred A. Aburto Jr." wrote in message
m...
Well, it could be that they used galaxies to confirm the sensitivity of
the
telescope?
Perhaps ...
Al

"R. Mark Elowitz" wrote in message
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I was wondering why would the SETI@home team try to observe other
galaxies for signs of ET signals (from the final re-observation
report). Besides the magellanic clouds, M31 is some 2 million light
years away. Any signal we receive would have been transmitted at least
2 million years ago (unless they transmit the signal through a
wormhole ;-) ). Also, I would think such a narrowband signal would be
far too faint to detect with current SETI receivers.

In fact Drake's equation does not even take into account other
galaxies due to their great distance.

Would it not be a much more important find
if a signal was detected from another galaxy?
That would mean that life had started millions
of years earlier than here so that the possibility
of much more advanced forms could be much
closer to our location....