Before anyone gets too cocky, remember that signal strength drops off at the square of distance. Even this tiny blip of range generally pales in comparison to the background radiation. We’re still almost invisible to our own technology at any serious distance.
For a reference, see how absolutely difficult it is to talk to the Voyager probes. The signal they receive is absolutely tiny. (20 billion times smaller than what it takes to run a digital watch, see the Deep Space Network for what does the talking).
If any aliens have heard us, their technology already outstrips ours by orders of magnitude.
(I can’t find the actual scene where they explain how the aliens used the Hitler Berlin Games broadcast because it was the first really high-power transmission, but got as close as I could.)
Before anyone gets too cocky, remember that signal strength drops off at the square of distance. Even this tiny blip of range generally pales in comparison to the background radiation. We’re still almost invisible to our own technology at any serious distance.
For a reference, see how absolutely difficult it is to talk to the Voyager probes. The signal they receive is absolutely tiny. (20 billion times smaller than what it takes to run a digital watch, see the Deep Space Network for what does the talking).
If any aliens have heard us, their technology already outstrips ours by orders of magnitude.
Thanks for the pep talk.
And if their technology outstrips us by that much, would they even notice us?
Notice? Maybe. Care? Lol, no.
If we were the first other species they’d care
Not care like an ant colony a few thousand miles away or not care like an ant colony in my kitchen?
how exactly would you get an ant colony in your kitchen?
Lots of ways
Same same.
they probably here already.some of us might even be one.
Obligatory Contact
spoiler
(I can’t find the actual scene where they explain how the aliens used the Hitler Berlin Games broadcast because it was the first really high-power transmission, but got as close as I could.)