What Type of Technosignatures Can We Detect?
- Amedeo Balbi
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Abstract
The existence of causal constraints introduces a temporal selection
effect in the type of technosignatures that we can detect. I discuss the
implications of this fact on the characteristic of detectable
technosignatures, and in particular their longevity.