[kirykl]

Sounds a little like taking a few sniffs and hoping to smell campfire smoke 100 km away. Eventually I hope we'll find more effective methods for SETI

[mikiem]

But these "few sniffs" amount to 8 Petabytes of data, according to the article.

[kirykl]

But what? If anything that 8 petabytes is 1/1000000 of a sniff in Universe scale