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Re:SETI: No Signal Detected from KIC 8462852 by aaron695 on Sunday November 08, 2015 @04:44AM (#10528077)
For starters we can easily talk/communicate to your grandmother and any human in history.

So I assume that you think they fear being found and are not trying to communicate (I find it unlikely they just don't care, as humans we are very interested in working out communications in the most simplest animals and plants)

Yet we have found them with our 'primitive' technology.

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Re:SETI: No Signal Detected from KIC 8462852 by pheroden on Sunday November 08, 2015 @08:11AM (#10528392)
No, these structures would have started being built before we knew knew how to calculate volume. Our radio waves will not reach them for 1300 years. With the degradation of signal, and amplification of noise, we're not sure if what they detect will even be decipherable from noise. They may have discovered a way to communicate that is more efficient, so they may not even be listening on those frequencies.

We found them because they built massive space structures. 1300 years ago, we were invisible.

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