However, it was not until the 1960s that our ability to actually detect these emissions came to pass.
Could therapeutic touch practitioners actually detect a human energy field?
"I think I actually detected an original thought or two in him last evening."
She frowned but couldn't actually detect any sarcasm in his voice.
Also the technique actually detects not whole messages but fragments of them.
Cells which actually detect an invading organism, become more numerous.
They were not actually detected until much later.
If by chance the beams pointed toward Earth, they could be seen as radiation pulses of the kind actually detected.
Scientists differ about the strength of this argument, but even at its best it is very different from actually detecting life elsewhere.
Note that the body can actually detect low levels of oxygen but that this is not normal.