• UnspecificGravity@piefed.social
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    7 hours ago

    Sadly the universe is filled with enough random radio radiation that its unlikely any coherent signal is going to travel more than a few light years. With our current technology there could be an identical version of earth around the nearest star and we probably couldn’t detect it.

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      6 hours ago

      The signal isn’t destroy though. So one could argue that isolating it in the noise is doable with enough math.

      Obviously the real limit is still distance since we’d need a radio dish like the size of earths orbit or something to pick up a signal from 200LY away.

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        5 hours ago

        Probably with virtual telescopes, smaller receivers arrayed throughout the entire solar system, like EHT but biiiiiiiigger