Earth is Becoming Less Detectable to Extraterrestrials

Wait, doesn't that mean that we've been going about this whole SETI thing all wrong? If there were an alien civilization out there further advanced than us, surely their transmissions would be quiet as well. So, we need a different strategy.

Good! Those aliens are always trying to invade us anyways. Maybe this is why we haven't detected any other alien civilizations either, they all switched to cable TV and bittorrent like I did ages ago ;)

This is good news. Now hopefully that 75 year burst of radio noise doesn't cause the wrong species to come knocking.

Noooooooo!!!
Who the hell thought that it was a good idea to stop transmitting tons of energetic gibberish into deep space! You selfish telecom engineers! Think of the aliens!! The damn ALIENS! How are they ever gonna cope without our TV channels! And it's not like power supply is an issue or anything!

Once we start using lasers more for astronomy and communication, we will become more detectable than ever. That is, other than the nuclear testing done in the 1950s and 60s, which probably was a particularly clear signal.

We're detectable for other reasons. One of the ways astronomers have proposed looking for alien civilisations is to analyse the atmospheres of planets for pollutants or other signs of life. Life changes a planet, you know?

If they're looking, they'll find us. Getting here will be a bigger problem.

And communications can't go faster than light.

looking at this and looking at the other piece on Neatorama (about old paintings/"hidden easter eggs"-#2 especially about UFOs in paintings as far back in 1500s or even further back)... wouldn't that indicate that Aliens/UFOs have already been around? Plus, Mexico claim they get sites all the time, look at you tube vids, they're every where. so, i don't think it would matter if we're undetectable since we're been "detectable" for years.

so we can't see the alliens because the got ipods sooner than us? :(

well, people used to believe that you would die if you went faster than 80 mile an hour, then the speed of soundwould be impossible. now we cant cumpicate faster than light? hehe.

Finally! Jeez. I've been arguing about this very notion that we ourselves are becoming a species that are moving to a more digital information people...and yet there are those who say we need SETI. Pffft. SETI is a waste of money.

The most detectable time in our history would have been when VHF TV was broadcasting during the daytime only in the USA. That would have created a beacon like effect for those transmissions. They would have traveled about 60 light years by now and if there was someone 30 light years away we might get a response. Then again there may be a mode of communication we haven't even discovered and the galaxy might be screaming with communications. SETI would be like natives with drums listening for radio signals.

If you didn't immediately think of the people of Omicron Persei 8 watching episodes of "McNeal" then you're less of a nerd than me.

I bet advanced alien races probably have more highly advanced ways of detecting life on other planets, systems, etc. I bet they can even tell how delicious we are and whether it's worth a fast food run to come to Earth and eat us up.

Now how will Lrrr from Omicron Persei 8 be able to watch the perky young lawyer McNeil???

Actually this may help us ignore the pesky young civilizations that are just JIBBERING IN ALL CAPS across the galaxy so we can concentrate on talking to the more intelligent races that set up beacons designed to attract those who want to talk intelligently.....

(Oh crap, is there a galactic Chris Hansen Dateline Predator channel out there?????)

It doesn't matter. THEY are already here!