[apochromat]

#440 was supposed to go to you. I have a feeling the whole exercise of sending and bouncing FTL signals could be a waste of our time. It's making me irritated and tired, and I'm about ready to call it a day.

[Momaw Nadon]

Thanks for posing this interesting problem.

I'm sure someone on Free Republic will be able to solve it.

By the way, when the astronomers said that they would find an ET signal within 25 years, how did they come up with the estimation of 25 years? Why not 5, or 10, or 50, or 100, or something else?