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Originally Posted by ZeroID
Hmm, not that I'm a sceptic or an avid believer either but our last 200 years of radio transmissions has only travelled 200 light years away from us and only reached a couple of close systems that apparently are unlikely candidates, no planets in the 'Goldilocks Zone'.
I think we might have to wait a few millenia at least before our signal possibly disturbs and is replied to by any(one)(thing)(???).
Be some toll bill ... !!
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SETI is a nice idea, but the
Inverse-Square Law pretty much kills the dream.
Any signal we send will be irretrievably lost among the natural cosmic background noise
long before it reaches just about anywhere within even the nearby parts of the stellar "neighbourhood".