Originally Posted by
Jack by the hedge
Nonsense. SETI was a project to search for signs of life elsewhere in the universe. Nobody pretended that we could have real time two-way communication with a civilization hundreds of light years away. I'm afraid the irrationality being displayed is not coming from the source you fondly imagine.
The reason they have to go farther into space is because there are no signs of ETI in our neighborhood. And the SETI search is broadbased scanning millions of stars. You read the quote challenging Sagan.
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Sagan argued that thousands of technically advanced civilizations might be scattered across the galaxy. Some of these societies might be able to communicate with Earth via radio. The back-and-forth messaging might take centuries because of Albert Einstein’s speed limit on electromagnetic waves, but the participants felt the search for such signals was worthwhile anyway.
We will soon be able to see planets 10.5 light years away and even take pictures of it.