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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

Tau Ceti is only 12 ly away

1998 + 12 = 2010

So they're like 15 years late replying to the pussy call. Either they are too old and slow or they have so much already they're just too busy

[–] tyler@programming.dev 21 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Or they got the signal and had no fucking clue what it was, like when we got that strange noise from space that happened just once and never again.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

If you're thinking of the "Wow" signal, it turned out to be a magnetar

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 week ago

Or the perfectly reasonable response to intergalactic transmission of unsolicited coochie sounds.

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