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Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:14:40 UTC No. 16279939
What if we make contact with alien life but neither side has the means to travel to each other? Would we just hold a conversation for thousands of years until we develop interstellar travel technology?
🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:34:12 UTC No. 16279962
Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 06:34:59 UTC No. 16279965
>>16279939
I wonder what would be the maximum feasible data rate betwen earth and a planet 100 ly away.
Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:06:57 UTC No. 16280351
>>16279965
The Arecibo message was transmitted at 10 bits per second, so probably something of that order of magnitude.
Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 17:29:47 UTC No. 16280391
>>16279939
>>16279965
That’s probably the case. No meaningful exchange can be made with 50+ years of lag, it’ll be a novelty at best and completely unfeasible waste of time at worst.
Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:19:43 UTC No. 16280442
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Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 06:44:58 UTC No. 16281065
>>16279939
If the ayys can communicate with us then they know our exact location. That means they can easily destroy us just for shits and giggles by bombarding the solar system with relativistic space rocks.