• crapwittyname@lemm.ee
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    21 hours ago

    There are habitable planets orbiting about one in five stars. So a few hundred habitable worlds in that range. Why do none of them transmit?

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      3 hours ago

      If I’m not mistaken, the habitable means posibility of liquid water. I’m not aware of any of those planets to be truly able to host a life as we know it. It’s always either high radiation, toxic atmosphere, tidal lock, or dozens of other things…

      And how would they even transmit? We can barely talk to Voyager that’s basically on our own front lawn. A planet out-shouting it’s own star seems a bit sci-fi.