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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by kortex on Saturday January 14, 2023 @07:19PM (#34385462)
Everyone always talks about the Drake equation and how life, let alone intelligent life, ought to be ubiquitous in the galaxy but like, there's no guarantee of any of that. We could be the only sentience for many light-years.
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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by sidlls on Saturday January 14, 2023 @07:53PM (#34385660)
For “many” to be relevant here we’d have to be talking tens or even hundreds of thousands at least. A few thousand lightyears is measurement error on just our galaxy’s scale.
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