Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests
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Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests
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#2What's staggering to me is that with the new Voyager discoveries lately it feels like we're a bunch of stellar savages who just managed to release a buoy far enough into the ocean to feel the currents.
Let alone recognize another savage on a different continent who might be doing the same experiment.
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#3The dark forest theory lives!
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#4Seems like the only way for us to prove that they can see us is for us to see them first.
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#5#spaceforce
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#6> the zone where Earth's transit is visible gets smaller as you get closer to our solar system
I’m trying to imagine why that is but cannot.
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#7The dark forest theory lives!
Unfortunately, yes. The first thing we’re going to do as soon as we fine intelligent alien life is figure out how to kill it. And sadly we’ll have to assume they’re doing the same.
An no, settling Mars won’t help. If someone / something can launch an interstellar attack it can certainly attack more than one planet and moon.
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#8> the zone where Earth's transit is visible gets smaller as you get closer to our solar system I’m trying to imagine why that is but cannot.
I am by no means anything close to a physicist, but I would imagine it is because of the same principle as the inverse quare law.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law
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#9> the zone where Earth's transit is visible gets smaller as you get closer to our solar system I’m trying to imagine why that is but cannot.
I struggled with that too. Here's my mental model, which may or may not be relevant.
Imagine you're holding a penny directly in front of your eyes, between you and the sun. It can do a pretty good job of blocking the sun for you, because it's so close, but no one else is impacted.
Now move that penny a few hundred feet up. Now it's almost imperceptible, but far more people (technology permitting) are capable of spotting it.
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#10Can WE detect life on Earth from far away?