Recent content by john.andrews

I don't think I'm being clear lol. The signals we are receiving today (2010) are of a civilization who has had radio for 50-60 years (meaning they're 150-160 years ahead of us if they're 100 ly away). So we should've been receiving their signals for the past 50-60 years because they 'started...

Well finding the star shouldn't be too difficult, but what about the justification for why we're just not seeing those signals? I mean obviously you have to be pointing your radio telescope in just the right direction, but I was under the impression that SETI had already surveyed the surrounding...

Little preface to this series of questions, I'm really into theoretical physics but I have very little astronomy knowledge. I'm a very curious person so feel free to talk over my head and I'll google what I need. That being said, I'm participating in Novembers "Novel Writing Month" as a fun...