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Old 06-14-2008, 09:30 PM
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Default If radio waves can travel very far in space then....?

Is it almost like we are leaving a fossile of the human race into space? will our radio waves be around a lot longer than the human race will? If there is life in the univers could they be able to find traces of us in space long after we are all gone just by using radio telescopes?
Sorry if i seemed worried, i am not worried i am just interested. Why would i be worried if some race knew we were here millions of years from now
John f that was very funny and made me think even more about what an alien race would think of us, i bet they would be very confused for a long time at what the hec we were
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Old 06-14-2008, 09:34 PM
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We will honestly never know if anyone finds us, so whats the point of worrying about it.
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Old 06-14-2008, 09:34 PM
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You do know that waves disperse right?
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Old 06-14-2008, 09:34 PM
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Well not really but they will with another technology but not with this.
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Old 06-14-2008, 09:34 PM
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Then what u want to ask?
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Old 06-14-2008, 09:35 PM
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like all waves, they break apart and dissipate, astronomically speaking I don't think they decipherably travel that far
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Old 06-14-2008, 09:35 PM
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I don't think we know enough about the effect of the depths of space to really know how the radio waves are affected by it.
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Old 06-14-2008, 09:35 PM
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Yes. I heard someone on NPR radio last week saying that I Love Lucy episodes are just leaving our solar system. They are so weak and below the floor noise level of space, the results of the Big Bang, that's it's very unlikely they'll be picked up by anyone, assuming there's anyone to try and pick them up. They get weaker with distance obviously. "Lucy....I'm in space!!!"
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Old 06-14-2008, 09:37 PM
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yes, by the same phenom, we view the stars as they appeared many 'light years' ago because it takes that long for the light to reach us so that stars we look at now may be LONG gone.
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Old 06-14-2008, 09:37 PM
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yes that's why we have SETI (search for extra teristrial intelligence) it doesn't just scan for simliar waves, it sends out a message of our own, and yes, if some(one/thing) is close enough, they will some day hear it... but since they would be so far away, by the time they heard them for the first time, we could very likely of been long extinct.... another cosmic enigma.
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