[ExI] Fermi paradox

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Wed May 26 08:14:18 UTC 2021


On Wed, 26 May 2021 at 01:26, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Incidentally now that Arecibo is gone, who if anyone is listening for
> a return signal to the 1974 message?
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> Stuart LaForge
> _______________________________________________


Heh!  :)
>From Wikipedia--
Because globular cluster M13, at which the message was aimed, is more
than 25,000 light-years from Earth, the message, traveling at
approximately the speed of light, will take at least 25,000 years to
arrive there.
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It was just a technical demo, to show that humans could send such a message.


BillK


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