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- initialism astronomy Acronym of
optical search forextraterrestrial intelligence . It isSETI usingvisible light instead of traditionalradio waves.
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SETI, or in this case OSETI for its optical version, makes additional sense in Japan because of the way telescopes are perceived and paid for.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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SETI, or in this case OSETI for its optical version, makes additional sense in Japan because of the way telescopes are perceived and paid for.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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The search field of the OZ OSETI project is 100 light years from Earth: a short walk around the block in galactic terms, but an area large enough to contain at least 1000 stars and possibly 20 times as many planets.
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In other words, OSETI assumes that there exists similarly or more advanced civilizations who have an interest to be detected by other civilizations.
The failure of the explanatory filter: Unreliability - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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See the technical paper on OSETI for additional details.
The failure of the explanatory filter: Unreliability - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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On Uncommon Descent, Dembski claims that OSETI shows how the explanatory filter is used in sciences.
The failure of the explanatory filter: Unreliability - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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OSET is, like SETI, an attempt to detect intelligently designed signals but unlike SETI ,which focuses on narrow band signals, OSETI relies on nanosecond optical pulses which it claims are more likely generated by intelligent sources because of the lack of known natural mechanisms that would generate such pulses.
The failure of the explanatory filter: Unreliability - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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On Uncommon Descent, Dembski claims that OSETI shows how the explanatory filter is used in sciences.
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In other words, a design inference in OSETI, unlike the Explanatory Filter, still leaves open a natural explanation.
The failure of the explanatory filter: Unreliability - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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I will quote from the article to show how OSETI mimics the explanatory filter in the sense that it can generate false positives.
The failure of the explanatory filter: Unreliability - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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