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To: Red Badger

I play the Powerball lotto, so clearly I’m willing to entertain long odds. However, the lotto is not my retirement plan.

It could happen, it’s just very, very unlikely.


67 posted on 07/15/2014 10:27:19 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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To: Haiku Guy

Given the immense astronomical distances and the Inverse Square Law for radio transmissions, I doubt that any of our signals would be detectable past our own solar system’s Oort Cloud. Even pulsars are faint and they are in other galaxies.................


69 posted on 07/15/2014 10:31:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (I've posted a total of 2,763 threads and 85,286 replies. ...............)
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