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[QUOTE="dertoxia:1109013"]The problem is there's no way to communicate over any of the distances that a planet with life on it may exist. Yeah we may reach a point where we have the technology to detect a planet with life and maybe even be able to see that life but we won't be able to "talk" with them. Not with current technology anyway. The nearest possible star that MAY have a planet orbiting it that MAY have life on it that MAY be intelligent is roughly 50 light years away give or take. In order to send a signal to that planet we would need to direct a beam towards the location of space that that planet would be at in 50 years. We also would need to hope that in 50 years someone on that planet would be looking in our direction. So now we're talking about a best case scenario of maybe receiving a response in 100 years. The chances of us still caring about a signal we sent to some stupid planet 100 years later is pretty tiny. The other thing to keep in mind is that we are no longer broadcasting massive amounts of radio waves out into space and we havn't been for the last decade or so. Now with digital signals we're pinpointing data streams to exactly where they need to go, not sending out a giant blast of signal that our weak dishes could pick up on. Just imagine if some intelligent species out there is doing exactly what we're doing right now this very second. Or hell lets say that they've already detected our planet and sent a signal in our direction. We would need to be looking in exactly the right place at the right time. We're almost reaching infinite improbability here. I do think that there could be a chance that someday we might pick up a signal coming from a planet so far away....that the planet itself may not even exist anymore. Or so much time has passed since they sent it, that their civilization may not exist anymore.[/QUOTE]
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