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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by gnulinux on Thursday September 13, 2018 @03:50PM (#17981849)
But isn't there a certain probability we missed those radio waves back when we didn't know radio and now the earth is receiving more sophisticated signals humans can't yet analyze?
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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by saudioger on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:05PM (#17982021)
Sure, it's also possible the universe immediately surrounding us was teeming with life a billion years ago and we just missed it all anyway.

We can only try our best with the current means we have available.

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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by cde-v on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:15PM (#17982121)
We could have missed those signals millions of years ago, but we could also start receive a civ's first ever radio broadcast tomorrow (that would be incredibly lucky).
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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by jcelerier on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:45PM (#17982395)
> we could also start receive a civ's first ever radio broadcast tomorrow (that would be incredibly lucky).

not a chance. Our own radio transmissions barely go past the solar system before going under the noise floor.

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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by saagarjha on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:31PM (#17983268)
Maybe not their first radio broadcast, but possible one of their early, directed ones…
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