• The Rizzler@feddit.org
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    26 days ago

    who says the signals would be dicipherable by their tech? to them it might be some kind of deadly radiation that keeps them away

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      26 days ago

      If radio at the energies used for long distance communication is deadly to you and your spaceship isn’t enough to protect you from it, good luck getting into space in the first place.

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        26 days ago

        depends on the type of radiation.

        When a topic involves aliens, no one really knows how their bodies work.

        What’s harmful to one organism is often harmless to others

        the kinds of cosmic radiation that’s abundant outside of earth’s atmosphere and magnetosphere could be harmless or even benefical to other orgamisms that do interstellar travel all the time