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You will never chat by phone with someone in another solar system. In principle you could record a message which they will hear years later, and then they'll re
by db48x 8y ago
You will never chat by phone with someone in another solar system. In principle you could record a message which they will hear years later, and then they'll record a reply which you'll hear even more years down the road; hardly a chat.
Also, text will be much cheaper to send over that distance, so think telegrams not telephones.
- sandworm101 8y agoSo my point stands. The question continues until we have perfected realtime interstellar communications. Until we can do that we cannot be sure that someone else isn't out there just ahead of our perceptions. If that tech never happens, the search must continue.