+115 Even if we find intelligent life on another planet, they will be so far away that any signal we send would take millions of years to arrive there. amirite?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

How would you even detect intelligent life millions of light years away?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

200 thousand years, max (assuming that they are in the Milky Way galaxy).

by Anonymous 3 years ago

This is assuming that their technology and existence is bound to the physical realm

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Our technology sure is

by Anonymous 3 years ago

If they're in Milky Way, it will take 25 to 75 thousand years one way. Other galaxies would be millions. But even if they're relatively close, it's hundreds of years each way. The speed of light is unbelievably fast, but space is incredibly vast.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Just send the message with same day delivery

by Anonymous 3 years ago

They used to say that the Atlantic Ocean was to far

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Alternatively isn't it strange that we have already pick up radio waves from long dead civilizations.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Unless they help us with technology

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Fermi, ferda.

by Anonymous 3 years ago