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Well, for fun, that's 2.25 ergs, over 30 years that's an average of -126dBm

That's not that low for signal processing these days, and it'd be much more practically useful to develop the ability to filter out noise to that level than attempting to suppress it over a very broad area. My understanding is that it's the sensitivity of the detectors that's the real issue: they get pushed into clipping since their dynamic range is not that high. A similar thing happens with optical transceivers.

[0]: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-abstract/47/1/59...



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