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Archive Home > 2012 > July > 26 > Why we haven’t heard back from Andromeda (or anywhere else)

Why we haven’t heard back from Andromeda (or anywhere else)

By Bill Logan / The Bulletin
July 26, 2012

To understand why we haven’t been able to communicate with intelligent life in other parts of the universe, one must first understand the enormous distances involved.

The speed of light and radio waves is 186,000 miles per second. The time it takes for light and radio waves to reach us from our....

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