Certainly, and it also means that our failure to find communications from intelligent life is that much more disturbing.
Have we existed intelligently for too short a time to find others like us? Is the great filter still ahead of us? Will we ever fuck aliens?
We’ve had like 10 years of actual ability to receive any sort of transmissions and we aren’t even looking that hard. We’ve been transmitting for about 100, but those signals are weak and probably wouldn’t even make it to the nearest star.
We’ve been transmitting for about 100, but those signals are weak and probably wouldn’t even make it to the nearest star.
alpha centauri is only 4.3 light years away mate, our first radio waves blew past them decades ago
Yeah, and unless they’ve been transmitting for like a century straight, we’ve had no way to listen. Also there’s always the possibility that industrialized society is doomed to fail and you end up with a bunch of tribal at best life and a huge amount of non-complex life.
