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To: Little Pig

If there’s intelligent life there, can you imagine they would be even slightly interested in the piece of lint they see from there that we call the Milky Way?

Even if they were curious and pointed a telescope in our direction, it will be a billion years from now before we make any interesting radio noises for them to listen to.

Crazy stuff.


52 posted on 03/02/2016 2:00:57 PM PST by orangeTank
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To: orangeTank

And they’d never hear us anyway. Our radio noise bubble is weak enough that it attenuates to below the background noise floor in less than 100 light years. We’d need to find a way to spell words with whole galactic arms if we want to get the attention of beings in a galaxy a billion light years away.


53 posted on 03/02/2016 2:13:59 PM PST by Little Pig
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