Re: Detecting variables

["Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>]

Martin pointed out:

> Remainder of 10311 were over 128 days

The question would be whether there was an
even distribution over variables going bright
vs. variables going dark.  As Lineweaver's group
has pointed out in several papers *most* "civilizations"
are going to be much older than ours (on the order of
70%).  These civilizations will be in the process of
taking their stars dark (for various reasons I will not
cover here but are discussed in various papers I have
written.)  So *if* one has evidence of more stars
going dark than going light one has a *very* interesting
evidence for extraterrestrial civilizations at work in our
galaxy.

This places a *very* different spin on the entire SETI effort
because one is not searching for evidence that they are
communicating with us (CETI) but one is simply searching
for evidence that they do indeed exist.

Robert