re: A space object is firing signals at Earth every 44 minutes.

Damn it. Botched it

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Well luckily whatever signals we are receiving likely were sent out well before man existed.

If we send something back not sure you or I need to worry ? let’s FAFO

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Alright im sold, let's send it.

Coincidentally, that matches the same frequency of my wife's "comments and suggestions" to me.

867-5309

“Our collision budget is a million dollars, and that lets us cover about 1% of the sky. And with all due respect sir, it’s a big arse sky.”

My money is on it being a magnetar.

Are they all prime numbers? I’ve seen this movie and the ending sucked.

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If that's a civilization capable of sending these signals a VERY long time ago, they were likely capable of Dyson spheres by now. It would be insanely far ahead of us in tech. We'd be ants to them, and we'd have nothing to offer them even as labor, free carbon, or resources if we communicated back.

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Unless they couldnt get past the great filter.

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15,000 years ago =\= 15,000 light years

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Unless they can transmit something faster than light that’s exactly what it means. A signal we receive today from 15k light years away left 15k years ago at light speed.

I was only responding to the worry about responding to them and they show up at our doorstep. They very much may be dead by now, but while tech adv may be beyond our imaginations as well as the life ending dangers, I think if they've made it that far then they've made it through the AI singularity and nano bot tech and thats very comforting when worrying about the great filter theory.