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120 light years away. If there was life out there, similar to us - could we detect their radio and television signals over this distance?
by mg 3y ago
120 light years away.
If there was life out there, similar to us - could we detect their radio and television signals over this distance?
- XorNot 3y agoIf we could get a positive confirmation of just anything living - even if it's just oceans of plankton - then that would revolutionize our understanding of the universe. Actual, viable, recognizable lifeforms of extra-solar origin changes the inputs to a lot of our ideas about where and who we are pretty substantially (also some rather unfortunate possibilities about the great filter).
- 867-5309 3y agoof course. photons do not experience time or distance, and are probably ageless
- fbhabbed 3y agoThey do, however, experience the inverse square law.