https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-send-transmit-earth-location-aliens-stephen-hawking-warning-arecibo-1694139

  • catposter [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    radio signals would take millions of years to get any significant distance and for all we know we just evolved in a span of time right after one passed through our solar system. even a 0.1 degree difference in the direction of travel could make a radio signal entirely miss our solar system too. that combined with the low revolution rate of multicellular creatures means that it's probably just that no one knows where to find others and there's very few people to look