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I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog. This is where I make terrible puns.

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    Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 22 Oct 2015
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    What if we *do* find signals from that weird star? It's 1480 LY away. Imagine knowing there are aliens but having to wait 3000y to meet them

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      1. Member Of Species‏ @MemberOfSpecies 22 Oct 2015
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        @slatestarcodex If only there were somewhere we could sign up to get messages from weird stars right now...

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      2. Void Of Space‏ @VoidOfSpace 22 Oct 2015
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        @slatestarcodex unless the aliens themselves move at light speed, "we"'d be meeting their response, be it messages, or high-energy messages.

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      3. Allele Of Gene‏ @AlleleOfGene 22 Oct 2015
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        @VoidOfSpace @slatestarcodex Remote presence, if you can put up with the lag.

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      1. isabella v‏ @isagirl_v 22 Oct 2015
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        .@slatestarcodex Less jarring than the realisation that so easily chancing upon another civilisation implies a far more populous universe.

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      1. Alex "Bloomer" Forrest  🚉 🌺‏ @380kmh 22 Oct 2015
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        @slatestarcodex not really that different from what I already believe

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      1. Chris Ball‏ @cjbprime 22 Oct 2015
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        @slatestarcodex http://www.amazon.com/The-Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765377063 … is relevant and good!

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      2. Adam Emmanuel Blackstone  🕊 🥃 🎲 🚠 🚀 💹 ☦️‏ @MeadBadger 22 Oct 2015
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        @slatestarcodex That would be quite the incentive to fund warp drive research.

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      3. Evan Jenkins‏ @ejenk 22 Oct 2015
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        @Celt_Englishman @slatestarcodex Not necessary. Sufficiently fast sublight travel would get there in sufficiently quick (proper) time.

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      1. Leo Breebaart‏ @LeoBreebaart 22 Oct 2015
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        @slatestarcodex Maybe those aliens actually started a road trip in our direction 2999 years ago, and are due to arrive any minute now? :-)

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