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Also, they’re dying. Earth is probably less noisy now that 50 years ago.


Why is that the case?


It’s wasteful to spend the power to broadcast up into the sky when no viewers are up there; more focused directional transmitters, more sensitive receivers which allow lower power signals, more information sent over cable and fibre optic and undersea transmission lines and point-to-point satellite, more microwave and laser links compared to spam-everywhere radio broadcasts.


As I understand it, the most visible stuff would be TV signal and over the horizon radar. TV signals have gotten less powerful, over the horizon radar is less of a big deal than it used to be. In another 50 years, will terrestrial TV, or any high power terrestrial radio, be a thing at all?




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