The Future of Interstellar Communication

How will we communicate with the ships that we send to other stars? Scientists think the answer might involve using the sun as a giant lens to strengthen the signal. Host: Caitlin Hofmeister ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Sultan Alkhulaifi, Nicholas Smith, Tim Curwick, Alexander Wadsworth, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Charles George ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/01300800-talking-to-pluto-is-hard.html https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.05570.pdf https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111221.html http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-seventy-billion-mile-telescope https://www.space.com/34593-james-webb-space-telescope-complete-2018-launch.html https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1604/1604.06351.pdf http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576510002304 https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03795 ______ Images: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/services/networks/DSN50Gallery-08.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_(optics)#/media/File:Lens1.svg https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111221.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/multimedia/pia17462.html https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/hubble-displays-a-dwarf-spiral-galaxy