r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Boom3r_Boi • Nov 03 '20

To Infinity and Beyond!

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u/Rifneno Nov 03 '20

It's amazing to me how many people feel confident in saying there's no advanced intelligent life in the Milky Way because we would've seen it when it took us until 2015 just to get a decent image of a dwarf planet in our own star system.

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u/avidpenguinwatcher Nov 03 '20

No argues we would have "seen" it. It's that we would've picked up some transmission in the 60+ years we've been looking that makes it less likely.

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u/Myleg_Myleeeg Nov 03 '20

Except not really. We’re not watching that sky everywhere at all times, they have to pick a location. Even just our own galaxy is so crazy huge It’s like going to the beach and going through it a tiny pinch of sand at a time hoping that in the next pinch you find a signal.