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ProfessorGAC

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15. How Would They Stop It?

Reply to lagomorph777 (Reply #6)

Mon May 2, 2016, 03:26 PM

May 2016

The first thing they did in radio wouldn't have been ultra narrow band and highly focused communication. So, before they had that they would have evolved through normal radio and then on to more sophisticated forms of transmission.

And, i don't recall saying they were sending "us" signals. Merely, that we would have picked up the signals they were sending for their own use.

I also get the brown dwarf thing and i agree. I'm trained in the sciences. (Advanced degree in organic chemistry.) So, i was just trying a little humor.

Sheesh, people can be so overly serious.

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Astronomers discover three habitable planets just 40 light years away [View all] G_j May 2016 OP

Heh just Egnever May 2016 #1

Aw come on... 40 light-years is but a hop, skip, and a jump! cherokeeprogressive May 2016 #2

Ensign... Warp 9... tk2kewl May 2016 #14

When you're talking cosmic proportions, 40 lys is just over yonder ----> ChisolmTrailDem May 2016 #8

Fair enough Egnever May 2016 #12

The Milky Way is 100,000 light years wide KelleyKramer May 2016 #18

Perspective Stuckinthebush May 2016 #32

Let's start building an Ark now felix_numinous May 2016 #3

Well, There Isn't Advanced Civilization There For Sure ProfessorGAC May 2016 #4

Because they haven't sent us signals? lagomorph777 May 2016 #6

How Would They Stop It? ProfessorGAC May 2016 #15

Yes felix_numinous May 2016 #7

We don't need there to be an "advanced civilization" there...hell we don't have that here! Anyway.. ChisolmTrailDem May 2016 #9

Again, I Was Kidding Around ProfessorGAC May 2016 #16

Ya we aren't even considered JesterCS May 2016 #28

The Time Window, encryption and advanced technologies. Ichingcarpenter May 2016 #34

And let's call it Noah's spaceship meow2u3 May 2016 #24

Just ask the Golgafrinchans! longship May 2016 #27

Word is that they want all persons on our planet to stay away malaise May 2016 #5

Also that Earth is under quarantine felix_numinous May 2016 #10

This has the potential to be exponentially more exciting that it already is. If even simple life... ChisolmTrailDem May 2016 #11

K & R! HuckleB May 2016 #13

send cruz and trump captainarizona May 2016 #17

Sounds like one already has the first colony of Catholic space monks pinboy3niner May 2016 #19

I should probably research how life would evolve in such a system. ladyVet May 2016 #20

sadly, I think you're right n/t Pakhet May 2016 #22

You can detect an extrasolar transit with almost any telescope, the article is wrong on that Fumesucker May 2016 #21

Meanwhile, on the planet TRAPPIST-1 ... aggiesal May 2016 #23

Outside a relatively small distance from us, They don't love Lucy IDemo May 2016 #25

informative G_j May 2016 #30

that was also an 1880s Russian plan to recapture everyone's particle paths and resurrect them MisterP May 2016 #31

40 Light Years? Piece of Cake... Oneironaut May 2016 #26

If Trump wins I'm going there. Lint Head May 2016 #29

just forty lightyears away!? wildbilln864 May 2016 #33

Sure putting a lot of money into finding a place to run to. glinda May 2016 #35