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To: Elllk who wrote (80715)	6/2/2000 11:03:00 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) of 108807

Elllk, A satellite to where? Putting it into orbit around the Earth or Sun would serve no purpose in letting another civilization know that we are here. One that escapes our solar system would take about 30,000 years to reach the nearest star using our present technology, and it probably would not have an ETI associated with it. To just let it drift aimlessly in space like a bottle in the cosmic ocean doesn't make sense because it would be extremely unlikely that it would be found. It makes more sense to direct our messages towards an ETI society after first monitoring them for an appropriate period of time, and then responding when there is a consensus on what to say. I think that we will have an answer to whether we are alone in less than 50 years, and that the answer will be that the Universe is full of intelligent life. What we will have to deal with is that almost any ETI life that we are able to monitor will almost certainly be far more advanced than we are. They will at least have to have the ability to send powerful radio or laser signals and have the ability to detect ETI life elsewhere in the Universe, an ability that is just in it's infancy here.

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