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Re:SETI: No Signal Detected from KIC 8462852 by flatline on Saturday November 07, 2015 @03:09PM (#10526034)
1480 light years away...it's just too far for practical travel on any sort of scale, and I assume scale would be required to "do something" to us beyond taking a glance - and even that seems far-fetched.
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Re:SETI: No Signal Detected from KIC 8462852 by wangii on Saturday November 07, 2015 @04:32PM (#10526318)
Assuming a Type 2 civilization has 10x population of the earth, each individual of it would consumes more energy than all of human beings combined. It's reasonable to suggest that light-year to it would be less challenging than AU to us.
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