Eavesdropping on aliens

And no worries about injunctions filed by those pesky civil libertarians -- for a few decades, at least:

If aliens tens of light-years away have radar and FM radio, we may finally be able to hear them.

A proposal to piggyback detection software onto new radio telescopes designed primarily to observe the early universe could allow astronomers to eavesdrop on everyday sounds from distant, Earth-like civilizations.

Posted by David on January 16, 2007 5:27 PM