• The Rizzler@feddit.org
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    who says the signals would be dicipherable by their tech? to them it might be some kind of deadly radiation that keeps them away

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      If radio at the energies used for long distance communication is deadly to you and your spaceship isn’t enough to protect you from it, good luck getting into space in the first place.

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          The news talks about aliens all the time, apparently they’re stealing my jobs but I’ve never seen any greys in the shops so it must be really good camo.

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        one kind of radiation that’s deadly to one species might be harmless to another…I just replied to the other person about this

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          You’ll get a lot more exposure to radio waves from your average star than from Earth at a distance. Earth shines brightly in that spectrum but not enough to outshine a star.

          There’s only one kind of photon radiation. It just varies in frequency and strength from radio to gamma.

          If an alien can’t survive Earth’s radio emissions they wouldn’t have made it to Earth in the first place.