Posted on 05/07/2006 11:10:47 AM PDT by KevinDavis
You'll notice I didn't say it was a waste of *my* money?
The assumption that they are doing omnidirectional broadcasts is obviously unwarranted.
:') The distance at which the strongest signal on Earth could be picked up by technology similar to ours used to be about 10 light years; now it is about 50, so regardless of the actual size of the galaxy, we won't be hearing from a society as distant as your example. Also, as we make no active effort to be heard, some nearby ET's picking up one of our signals is unlikely. Given that no one here has an interest in doing anything but listening, I don't see any reason to expect any other civilization wanting to try to broadcast an interstellar hello signal, even assuming they haven't discovered something more advanced than radio.
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