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To: jespasinthru

It’s unlikely that a detectable signal from Earth has penetrated into space much further than about 0.6c-yr. That’s not “deep space.”


10 posted on 05/05/2015 9:36:59 PM PDT by FredZarguna (On your deathbed you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me.)
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To: FredZarguna

The Galaxy is thought to be about 1000 light years thick and 160,000 light years in diameter so, yeah... Our transmissions are not that far into space to have attracted much attention.
Heck, the gravitational effect of our sun reaches out only about two light years and Voyager, with its fancy plaque, has only just reached the edge of the solar system where sunlight is thought to penetrate.


37 posted on 05/06/2015 2:29:30 AM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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