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I refuse to believe ET doesn’t use radio for something though

If ET consists of individuals operating in a society and have competing interests between individuals, they will probably need encryption, secrecy, and tampering resistence. If they need that, the best transmission mechanism will use quantum entanglement instead of radio waves. So radio transmissions are probably a short blip in technological development if used at all.

Think if we discovered fiber optic cables and Wi-Fi before AM/FM radio transmission, we may never use radio for long range transmission. Especially likely if the planet’s gravity is too strong for rocketry to develop first to place satellites in orbit.

Even so, our radio bubble is tiny, and EM waves lose power quickly enough that we have little ability to detect most of them, especially lower energy waves. The chances of us noticing a 200 year blip matching a civilization’s technological development through the EM noise of the rest of the universe is extremely slim.

I think radio waves are more likely to be specific to our technological development than evidence our universe is nearly devoid of civilizations.

It is probable that civilizations are either not a common form of life or that electromagnetic radiation is not used to communicate as we understand it for very long in the lifespan of a civilization.

Black person: sings or dances

“Wow such racial talent”

What the dolphins are asking for:

China is even out-bazingaing the US now.