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  1. Pretty cool! But have you considered that if you have ever looked at a picture of yourself over a wi-fi network, you have actually broadcast it, albeit weakly, off into space at the speed of light?

  2. Yep, our signals are bouncing all over the place and easily distinguishable from stars thermal radiation. Add “path loss” into the equation I think our signals will already have become degraded background noise levels and will be indistinguishable from random noise.

    The old example from Physics class of the car headlights spreading out –

  3. webster

    Oh dear, I do NOT want my name on Mars. We humans have done enough to damage one planet in our solar system – I don’t want my name splattered on another. Sorry.

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