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paulzolo
What's a life?
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Paul1965
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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On the question of a response to an extraterrestrial signal: My brain hurts....
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Fogmeister
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Any intelligent beings that have detected life on earth will only have been able to do so through interception of leaked radio signals.
This means that they live within about 100 light years of earth and have equipment much more powerful than our own for detecting these signals.
It would then take equally as long for us to receive a signal back from them and again, they would have to have very powerful equipment to send the signal back to us.
No matter the chance of intelligent life existing in the galaxy. The chance that it matches these criteria is very very very slim.
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Fogmeister
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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... I don't think we need to worry just yet.
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pcernie
Legend
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_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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Sadly, he's already tweeted that the story is bollocks..
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paulzolo
What's a life?
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It's rapidly becoming an urban myth. We are seeing one in the making, people!
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pcernie
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I know, Dara made that pretty clear, but it was still funny  _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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