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Old 02-27-2009, 05:28 PM   #37 (permalink)
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Both hands in the air, Keefer took a stab as this latest puzzling question. " Um.. It seems like with so many other celestial bodies out there, there is bound to be interference. Like, don't supernovas emit waves, and the sun as well? And what about the mere distance? What are the odds that a radio wave from a million light years away is going to travel all that distance and 'happen' to be received by a specific point on the earth with a receiver? It just doesn't seem too probable to me that we'll ever be able to pick up a signal. There might be aliens emitting signals, but it's a whole other problem to detect them."

He started to lower his hands, but then had another thought. "Professor, not to be a downer or anything, but why does it even matter if there are alien civilizations out there? Even if we could contact them, they would be so far away that traveling there would be highly impractical, wouldn't it?"
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