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Re:Planetary 'autopsies' indicate worlds like Earth common i... by fhars on Monday October 21, 2019 @01:34AM (#21309574)
Although the current state of affairs seems to be that we are hellbent on activating said filter and we‘ll be long dead (at least as a technological civilisation) by the time anyone else receives our current radio transmissions.
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Re:Planetary 'autopsies' indicate worlds like Earth common i... by hoseja on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:28AM (#21309769)
Nobody can ever receive most of our current radio transmissions. They drop below the noise floor just out of our stellar neighborhood.
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Re:Planetary 'autopsies' indicate worlds like Earth common i... by gremlinsinc on Monday October 21, 2019 @08:00AM (#21311222)
True... but odds are also that IF civ's get near to Kardashev 1, there's a good chance they ALSO build AI's, which even if they died out, the AI would live on being synthetic and nearly immortal.

I think it's odd we don't see more synthetic ai type signs of life out there, at least.

I think if we do kill ourselves we might have AI before then to at least broadcast to the universe that we were here.

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