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Re:The Size of the Human Radio-Broadcast Bubble in the Milky... by hydrazine on Sunday February 06, 2011 @11:59AM (#2185929)
All in the name of technology..

Assuming no ETs exist within our 200ly bubble, if ETs somehow discovered our signal and made contact, our level of knowledge would jump a few centuries at least.

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Re:The Size of the Human Radio-Broadcast Bubble in the Milky... by ars on Sunday February 06, 2011 @02:53PM (#2186298)
If there are no ETs within the bubble how can they discover the signal?
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Re:The Size of the Human Radio-Broadcast Bubble in the Milky... by hydrazine on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @12:31AM (#2192078)
Sorry, I meant discover as in through our bubble's reaching them in the future (ensuring they're at least 100ly away).
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