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Earth is ‘well-hidden’ from extraterrestrial civilizations hunting for habitable planets
Physics World ^ | 7/22/2022 | Ian Randall

Posted on 09/28/2022 7:39:15 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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Earth is “well-hidden” to extraterrestrial observers using photometric microlensing to hunt for habitable planets that might support life...

Ummm... Microlensing is one of the most advanced methods humans have in the year 2022. Surely we'll have waaay more advanced methods in the year 1,000,000 AD, as do, presumably, the more advance and dangerous aliens have right now. To suppose they are still using ancient techniques to look for us, is equivalent to supposing they are still riding around in horse and buggies. It's crazy, wishful thinking, at best. IMHO

1 posted on 09/28/2022 7:39:15 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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It’s not that they don’t know about us.
We are just a quarantined planet.


2 posted on 09/28/2022 7:41:18 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want to see the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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Need to read the Three body problem trilogy. It deals with this issue. Best Sci-Fi book ever.


3 posted on 09/28/2022 7:43:02 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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That’s exactly what I was going to say. It’s like a baby covering its eyes to hide from its parents and thinking they can’t see.

Our ability to peer through the cosmos is infantile.


4 posted on 09/28/2022 7:44:20 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
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i dunno,

All this inasane liberal leftis insanity sure cam on all of a sudden.

Look at the typical SF or LA creep on the street.....


5 posted on 09/28/2022 7:46:28 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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Do you think humanity will have uninterrupted technological advances for 1,000,000 years?

We will have to survive several ice ages, some super volcano eruptions, a number of large asteroid strikes, dozens of gigantic solar flares and Democrats.


6 posted on 09/28/2022 7:46:46 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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Nearby planets with advanced civilizations are just recieving the first episodes of Maude and are concluding that we’re not worth visiting.


7 posted on 09/28/2022 7:48:49 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I Miss Jimmy Carter)
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“It’s not that they don’t know about us.
We are just a quarantined planet”.

Winner!


8 posted on 09/28/2022 7:51:06 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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Earth is ‘well-hidden’ from extraterrestrial civilizations hunting for habitable planets

Not by radio.

9 posted on 09/28/2022 7:51:36 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Best Sci-Fi book ever.

Okay, that does it! Just ordered it from Amazon on my Kindle. Prefer a real book in my hands, but my eyes just aren't very good anymore. Thanks for the rec!

10 posted on 09/28/2022 7:54:03 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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We on earth are the star attraction of a galactic entertainment syndicate. We provide beings with a never-ending, never repeating variety of non-stop entertainment 24/365.

No alien civilization would dare invade us to end the fun. No other alien civilizations would permit it. We are off-limits.


11 posted on 09/28/2022 8:03:34 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Except that we have been broadcasting our presence with high powered TV transmitters and BMEWS radars for over fifty years.......


12 posted on 09/28/2022 8:04:12 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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...Unless you were obliquely referencing C.S. Lewis or the Bible?


13 posted on 09/28/2022 8:04:47 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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While other exoplanet detection methods have typically only yielded planets up to one kiloparsec…


14 posted on 09/28/2022 8:06:04 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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So, As the World Turns, was not just a soap opera?
It’s a documentary?


15 posted on 09/28/2022 8:07:10 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want to see the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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16 posted on 09/28/2022 8:09:09 PM PDT by DannyTN
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17 posted on 09/28/2022 8:10:24 PM PDT by DannyTN
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We are hidden to the extend of the limits of the technology we know about.

What do they have we don’t have a clue about? Hmmmmm?


18 posted on 09/28/2022 8:10:50 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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I do think the sin issue is being allowed to play out here as an object lesson for the universe and history.

Our failure as a race may help other creations when they question why they should obey even insignificant commands of God.


19 posted on 09/28/2022 8:11:15 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want to see the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now.

What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout.

Energize the demolition beams.


20 posted on 09/28/2022 8:13:44 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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