From the article: "The nine dimensional haystack is a model used to quantify the parameter space Earth observers must pick through to rule out the existence of signals originating from extraterrestrial civilizations."
> Instead of defining space by number of stars searched, we have opted to define space by three spatial dimensions: distance away and solid angle on the sky.
Seems like this really explodes the space. Recall:
> Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 20.8 ms ] threadThe image at head of page is of the well-known Wow! signal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
Seems like this really explodes the space. Recall:
> Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.