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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I was actually thinking ๐Ÿค”...hmm this would be the best way to tell some other civilization that we live in this planetary system....get a mirror big enough to point a beam out of its normal trajectory in some sort of non random fashion. Basically smoke signals using a mirror.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I think this would take way to long to travel somewhere where things acutally live the light will probably only reach them long after humanity is gone.

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