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I suppose they are more than 10 light years away, so I guess if we want to talk then we transmit then wait for a long time. This earth like planet was 2700 lig
by 0xdeadbeefbabe 13y ago
I suppose they are more than 10 light years away, so I guess if we want to talk then we transmit then wait for a long time. This earth like planet was 2700 light years away: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/8-8-billion-habitable-earth-size-planets-exist-milky-way-8C11529186 http://www.nbcnews.com/science/8-8-billion-habitable-earth-s...
- clavalle 13y agoThere are a ton of candidates in our cosmic neighborhood (less than 70 light years away).
- kbutler 13y agoYou don't transmit and wait, you just keep talking* - we've essentially been doing this since radio broadcasts began, but we haven't heard/recognized a response yet... *I thought this was a NASA quote, but I probably got it from a science fiction story somewhere?
- jeffcoat 13y agoYou're probably thinking of Isaac Asimov's story "My Son, the Physicist". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Son,_the_Physicist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Son,_the_Physicist