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Telescopes can tune in to alien TV

Radio telescopes designed to study the early universe could be sensitive enough to pick-up radio leakage from alien civilizations. Researchers from Harvard University say that the most powerful emissions from our own planet come from military radar, TV and FM radio transmitters. If ET is producing similar signals, these spikes in the radio spectrum could be detected by telescopes being built today

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