@slatestarcodex If only there were somewhere we could sign up to get messages from weird stars right now...
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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. -
@VoidOfSpace@slatestarcodex Remote presence, if you can put up with the lag. -
@AlleleOfGene remote presence, but with precedent of human history, each time a new civilization to represent mankind? -
@VoidOfSpace The video feed remains active, but at times in the hands of the elite, at times a display in a museum or zoo. -
@VoidOfSpace@slatestarcodex Scholars struggle w/ translations of translations of questions, to understand answers 3000 years hence. - 1 more reply
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@slatestarcodex Less jarring than the realisation that so easily chancing upon another civilisation implies a far more populous universe.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@slatestarcodex As soon as I know cryogenic hibernation will keep me alive, I'll sign up to be shot in its general direction.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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? :-)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@slatestarcodex That would be quite the incentive to fund warp drive research. -
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@slatestarcodex Not necessary. Sufficiently fast sublight travel would get there in sufficiently quick (proper) time. -
@ejenk @Celt_Englishman@slatestarcodex What are a few generations between interstellar friends, after all.
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@slatestarcodex not really that different from what I already believeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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