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4.Would any extra-terrestrial civilisation be aware of our presence?

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  1. Well, probably not.  

    The only way they'd be aware that we're here is by listening to our radio signals or at least seeing our lit-up cities from space.  Those signals and light travel at, well, the speed of light.  The distance that light travels in one year is called a light-year, and the nearest star that isn't our sun is four light-years away.  

    http://www.solstation.com/stars/s10ly.ht... which is concerned about this issue, sez that there's a slim possibility that one or another of these close stars has a planet capable of supporting life.

    The problem is that there is a far greater chance of some sort of civilization living farther away than that, due to the larger number of stars contained in that larger radius.  But we've only been broadcasting radio signals and bright lights for perhaps the past hundred years, so anyone farther than 100 light-years away won't have heard or seen us yet.  

    The light you'll see from the stars in the sky tonight left most of those stars millions of years ago.


  2. Not sure... Ive always wondered if they exist maybe they think of us like we think of them...

  3. As much as we are of theirs.

  4. i am

  5. 1. YES, quite a number of them might be aware. The possibility is high, indeed!

  6. We will know the answer when we master good and bad witchcraft.

  7. (01) YES (DUUUDDDEE)

  8. The greatest evidence of INTELLIGENT life elsewhere in the universe is that they haven't tried to contact us yet. YES

  9. 3. maybe

  10. Yes...they watching you on answers !!....haha

  11. Our radio signals would be reaching 100 light years approximately; unless they had faster than light travel (or had been here before), no civilisation outside that space could know about us, which makes the probability very low.

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