[ExI] Fermi question, was is a FTL drive a dream . . .

[Mike Dougherty]

2011/12/20 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>:
>
> I have dimmers everywhere at home, but dimming a galaxy would be a
> technological feat on quite different scale...
>

In a similarly mundane analogy:

Could military-grade communications specialists from 1950 even detect
(much less understand) today's spectrum-hopping (et al) technology
used in something as backwards as a cordless phone?  Would HD Radio
make sense under examination using the tools of the day?  Would even
stereo FM be obvious to any but a few nerds in the world? (who may
have been on other projects at the time)

Do we have the right technology to interpret the signals around us?

What if we can't find anything because we're just not clever enough
(yet) to see what is everywhere?

I know, pointless speculation... can't do anything if it's true...
let's talk about some other pointless nuance of this paradox. (right)