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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago* (9 children)

    I think the closest we will come is detecting radio signals from another species. But like obviously 2 way communication would be almost impossible due to sheer distance.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Sadly the universe is filled with enough random radio radiation that its unlikely any coherent signal is going to travel more than a few light years. With our current technology there could be an identical version of earth around the nearest star and we probably couldn't detect it.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

    The signal isn't destroyed though. So one could argue that isolating it in the noise is doable with enough math.

    Obviously the real limit is still distance since we'd need a radio dish like the size of earths orbit or something to pick up a signal weakened from many lightyears away.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Probably with virtual telescopes, smaller receivers arrayed throughout the entire solar system, like EHT but biiiiiiiigger

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Of course, astronomers find the Oort cloud and want to turn it into a telescope! Figures.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    oooh, such a cool idea. I imagined the array in orbit around other planets' Lagrange points but scattering them in the Oort cloud is way excitinger

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