#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

5579.821 - 5603.915 Adam Frank

bounce off the ground right that the light bounces off the ground so you'd convolve the the sodium lamps with the reflected spectra from the ground and yeah you'd be able to see that there's city lights now increase that by a factor of a thousand you know if you had a a trantor and you'd be able to detect that across interstellar distances thomas beady did this work who's now working with us what do you think is the most detectable thing about earth