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Originally Posted by sammyg2
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It's a good thing all them stars are really far away I think. |
This.
Space is really really unimaginable BIG. I just can't imagine that there is not intelligent life on other planets with truly trillions of planets in our one galaxy and uncountable galaxies. They are just too far away. Even if some very advanced civilization can figure out interstellar travel the cost to go to one star nearby would be massive, and which star do they visit first?
If they have super sensitive antennas and are looking at Earth the signals get weaker the further out they travel, and they were not designed to be beamed into space. Not until the Arecibo message sent on November 16, 1974, and it does not arrive at M13 until approximately the year 25974. So just another 23,953 years for it to get there!
We have sent other messages that will get to some star maybe in another 10 years. We have no evidence there is any life there to receive it.