Square Kilometer Array

Jill Tarter was on the May 10th episode Science Friday to discuss SETI. Sadly, but not surprisingly, she took an ignorance-first approach to describing the challenge of SETI. No sooner had I finished writing a post about it, then I heard her say something blatantly false. She claimed this about our ability to detect another civilization using radio astronomy:

"If they're younger and less capable than we are, then we can't detect them over interstellar distances."

But on the Square Kilometer Array website I read:

The SKA will be so sensitive that it will be able to detect an airport radar on a planet 50 light years away.

Which isn't built yet, but Jill does need to get with the times.