Well this is interesting ...

[Jammer]

On 15/10/2015 15:22, Tony Scharf wrote:
> Well, they man know a planet exists in the habitable zone and be able 
> to see that it has life (oxygen atmosphere is a dead giveaway).  They 
> wouldn't know if it was technologically based.  That they will find 
> out in a little less than 1500 years time since we only started 
> putting out enough radio signal about 50 years ago.  Give them a 
> little time to respond, and I'd say we'd see them knocking on our door 
> in ~4500 years.  We we have some time to get our shit together I'd say.

If they can plug their iPods into an entire freakin star I doubt they 
need to wait for radio waves to detect anything ...

;)

> The question is, of course, if they did come here...what would their 
> purpose be.  Lets just hope it would be a benign curiosity.
>
> Tony

Urgh ... not sure I wanna think about that to be honest.
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