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physics.pop-ph2023
Interstellar Diplomacy
John Gertz
The Defense Department and NASA are investigating the possibility that aliens are currently surveilling Earth. This aligns with some search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence (SETI)…
physics.pop-ph2022★ 1 cited
Engineering an Interstellar Communications Network by Deploying Relay Probes
John Gertz, Geoffrey Marcy
We develop a model for an interstellar communication network that is composed of relay nodes that transmit diffraction-limited beams of photons. We provide a multi-dimensional rati…
physics.pop-ph2021★ 1 cited
The Drake Equation at 60: Reconsidered and Abandoned
John Gertz
Each of the individual factors of the Drake Equation is considered. Each in turn is either abandoned or redefined and finally reduced to a single new factor, fd, the fraction of te…