Timeline for Why aren't we using neutrino emissions to detect alien civilizations?
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| Jun 13, 2018 at 5:46 | comment | added | Hobbes | and one more proviso for good measure... | |
| Jun 13, 2018 at 5:45 | history | edited | Hobbes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 13, 2018 at 0:51 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | "We can detect individual nuclear reactors (slowly) at a range fo a few meters," - which just highlights the uselessness in an amusing way, because we can also do that without a neutrino detector. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 19:55 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | "We haven't made any that are sensitive enough to detect emissions from individual stars" should exclude the sun. I can list at least four experiments that worked on solar neutrino just off the top of my head. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 19:54 | comment | added | Hobbes | I've made my answer more specific to exclude detections where the neutrino detector is right next to the reactor. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 19:53 | history | edited | Hobbes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2018 at 19:49 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | "We haven't made any that are sensitive enough to detect emissions from individual nuclear reactors. " Is simply un-true. The first detection (in 1956) was done using the flux from a a single reactor. There are designs (and prototypes) in the nuclear non-proliferation community for compact, self-contained units designed to measure fuel composition and burn-up in reactors. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 18:28 | comment | added | Uwe | There are low energy neutrino detectors too measuring solar neutrinos as well as neutrinos from CERN, see Borexino. Not as massive as a supernova. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 14:28 | comment | added | Steve Linton | We can detect individual nuclear reactors (slowly) at a range fo a few meters, but we can't detect them from space. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 13:43 | history | answered | Hobbes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |