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    OriginalCaruso reacted to rinku's post in the thread Inbound System Comms with Like Like.
    This is definitely passive, so yes. More like a geiger counter, or eyes. Or a radio telescope, not active radar. Triangulation is still...
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    OriginalCaruso replied to the thread Inbound System Comms.
    Nice edit after your original rude and ignorant original response, which neatly illustrates how difficult detection at range is, as...
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    OriginalCaruso replied to the thread Inbound System Comms.
    Facile answer and you should do better than be rude and ignorant To passively scan out to the minimum orbit of Pluto assuming a beam...
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    OriginalCaruso replied to the thread Inbound System Comms.
    Ah but you haven’t answered the question asked with the reasonable constraints proposed. What conclusion should I draw?
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    OriginalCaruso reacted to phavoc's post in the thread Inbound System Comms with Like Like.
    You completely ignored the rest of the statement. If you are doing nothing but radiating the heat (which, by the way, is a lot harder...
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    OriginalCaruso replied to the thread Inbound System Comms.
    I’m fascinated by your assertion @MarcusIII and I’d like to understand the physics behind your calculations For simplicity sake, let’s...
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    OriginalCaruso replied to the thread Inbound System Comms.
    Earth diameter is just under 8000 miles therefore 100 diameters is 800,000 miles, around 3x the distance to the moon. Around1% of the...
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    OriginalCaruso replied to the thread Pioneer - Get Ready for Launch!.
    That's where the dog comes in handy...
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    OriginalCaruso replied to the thread Inbound System Comms.
    I refer to RADAR because that's what I know in the real world, and the physics translate to space games in general The Geiger counter...
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    OriginalCaruso replied to the thread Inbound System Comms.
    Round trip RADAR return time for 1 nautical mile is 12.35 microseconds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_mile Radiated power...
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    OriginalCaruso reacted to swordtart's post in the thread Inbound System Comms with Like Like.
    So Mars to Earth at its closest is 55 million km. The surface area of the sphere of that radius is over 38 peta kilometers squared...
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    OriginalCaruso replied to the thread Inbound System Comms.
    I’m trying to not let the physics get in the way of a good story :) Thanks for all the contributions to this thread, I am enjoying the...
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    OriginalCaruso reacted to swordtart's post in the thread Inbound System Comms with Like Like.
    The delay makes things much more difficult. You may detect a jump entry a long way out, but if the signal takes 30 minutes to reach you...
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    OriginalCaruso replied to the thread Inbound System Comms.
    Once in a place far, far away (Falkland Islands) I was on duty and bored. I looked at the RADAR screen and saw a blip a long way off. So...
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    OriginalCaruso replied to the thread Inbound System Comms.
    @MarcusIII - would you please evidence your assertions? I’m curious and not convinced by your comments
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