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You 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

by kbutler 13y ago

You 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 ago
You'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