(August 10, 2016 at 3:04 am)Excited Penguin Wrote:(August 9, 2016 at 7:27 pm)abaris Wrote: Why? If their message missed us, as in today, by a measly century, noone would have heard the message. Hell, if they missed us by 55, 60 years, nobody would have noticed. Don't you realize how tiny that pinhead of reception still is?
They could've been sending messages constantly. One would assume they would have the resources for it.
That would make it easier certainly. We've been broadcasting unto space for something like 80 years.
I have to wonder how far away we would be able to detect our own broadcast noise with the technology we have today. I'd be surprised if it were more than hundreds to several thousand light years which would be relatively nothing at galactic scales. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a lot less.
