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Actually, if we get to a point where we strongly suspect an alien world contains life, it would probably be a good investment to spend a lot of time pointing a
by vlasev 13y ago
Actually, if we get to a point where we strongly suspect an alien world contains life, it would probably be a good investment to spend a lot of time pointing a telescope in its direction. I imagine almost all (useful) telescopes will point in its direction.
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoLife on Earth is 3.5 billion years old. We are able to transmit and receive radio signals for barely a hundred. Aside from the issue of how we would divine if an alien world contains life, even if we did pointing most of telescopes in it's direction is most certainly a waste. Chance that somebody would be transmitting when we are listening is vanishingly small.