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This seems to me like shining a laser pointer randomly up into the sky and hoping someone from a passing plane sees it? Is this practical given the vastness of
by eloff 8y ago
This seems to me like shining a laser pointer randomly up into the sky and hoping someone from a passing plane sees it?
Is this practical given the vastness of space and the directionaality of this laser?
- joezydeco 8y agoWell not just a plane passing overhead, a plane passing overhead 200 years from now. Maybe we should be aiming the big laser at Oumuamua. With a big HEY COME BACK HERE message.
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- rdtsc 8y agoI've wondered if that was the purpose of the "probe". To see if anyone follows it, or otherwise interacts with it. Let's say you know there is a habitable planet, but you don't want to land there first, instead send a probe and see if the planet reacts to it. If they do, it would indicate a rather advanced civilization.
- Johnny555 8y agoLet's hope that there are no interstellar laws against shining lasers at other star systems.
- maxxxxx 8y agoThe Vogons may come by and destroy Earth.
- ridgeguy 8y agoI'll knowingly violate HN's rules to say that's a Vogon conclusion.
- angry_octet 8y agoIs there a rule against humour? Or puns? I thought it was just a sect of users who are also Wikipedia editors.
- richardbdrowley 8y agoThere is a rule against anything that doesn't make Sam Altman richer or more acutely aware of the startup landscape.
- AWildIdeaApp 8y agoWeaponized lyrics may save us. "Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"