radio-wave

Or why haven't we picked up the least shred of their radio-wave chatter?

The Loneliest Planet Alan Hirshfeld 2011

The Indian government allows foreign companies to bid for radio-wave licenses, but those companies can offer services only through a registered Indian company in which the foreign company cannot own more than 74%.

Qualcomm Considers Broadband Venture in India 2010

Worse, the new French-made Signet-5 radio-wave decoder—sold by the French to Russia, Iran, North Korea, Syria and other fine upstanding global citizens—was specifically designed to seek out and locate the American AN/PRC-119 tactical radio when it was broadcasting, the very radio their four teams were using today.

Hell Island Matthew Reilly 2010

So either they are vast creatures that have evolved natural radio-wave organs to talk and listen to each other, or they have developed technology.

Alien First Contact Mish 2010

But in any case the Jovian radiation bombarding Io isn't, for the main part, radioactivity: it's photons (mainly radio-wave and infrared, I think) and charged particles from the magnetosphere - you'd definitely want some kind of protection, but it could conceivably be considerably lighter and perhaps even thinner than the lead cladding you suggest, provided it had an ultra-efficient cooling mechanism built into it (a cooling laser, perhaps?)

mikandra: crap and duh mikandra 2010

So either they are vast creatures that have evolved natural radio-wave organs to talk and listen to each other, or they have developed technology.

Archive 2010-01-01 Mish 2010

This wandering had brought them within the vicinity of earth, a planet whose radio-wave emission was clearly detectable even at a distance of some several light years, and it was this that let the Yorok to send a signal in our direction.

I Told You So [a short story] James F. McGrath 2010

The Federal Communications Commission, which sets standards on radio-wave exposure, says there is no indication that smart meters are unsafe.

High-Tech Utility Meters Spark a Fight 2010

After a few moments of sending radio-wave notes to faraway places, they blow themselves up.

Dan Dubno: The End is Near: What's Your Personal Apocalypse? 2009

And with these still finer phenomena were captured: X-radiation, radio-wave transmission, coherent light.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009