Comments on: Do They Know We’re Here? http://blog.orbitalmaneuvers.com/2010/08/21/do-they-know-were-here/ Blog site for the novel, ORBITAL MANEUVERS Sat, 19 May 2012 17:20:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: admin http://blog.orbitalmaneuvers.com/2010/08/21/do-they-know-were-here/#comment-241 admin Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:20:52 +0000 http://blog.orbitalmaneuvers.com/2010/08/21/do-they-know-were-here/#comment-241 The radio transmissions travel at the speed of light, so they've been traveling for over a 100 years and have traveled over a distance of over 100 light years, or about 6 x 10^14 miles! The strength of the signal gets weaker by 1/(the distance traveled)^2, so they become attenuated very rapidly. But, who knows the capability of some alien technology to pick up these signals. Thanks for the comment! RC Davison The radio transmissions travel at the speed of light, so they’ve been traveling for over a 100 years and have traveled over a distance of over 100 light years, or about 6 x 10^14 miles! The strength of the signal gets weaker by 1/(the distance traveled)^2, so they become attenuated very rapidly. But, who knows the capability of some alien technology to pick up these signals.

Thanks for the comment!

RC Davison

]]> By: Mona http://blog.orbitalmaneuvers.com/2010/08/21/do-they-know-were-here/#comment-240 Mona Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:04:31 +0000 http://blog.orbitalmaneuvers.com/2010/08/21/do-they-know-were-here/#comment-240 There are those that think we do have visitors to our planet. It would be great to know for a fact that there are other intelligent life forms out there, hopefully friendly. I would like to think that if we do have an invasion, our current visitors would protect us. I'm kind of with Stephen on this one, why call (literally) for trouble. With the radio transmissions, do we know how far they travel? It is kind of scarey to me, on the one hand how great, on the other, what will it bring... There are those that think we do have visitors to our planet. It would be great to know for a fact that there are other intelligent life forms out there, hopefully friendly. I would like to think that if we do have an invasion, our current visitors would protect us. I’m kind of with Stephen on this one, why call (literally) for trouble. With the radio transmissions, do we know how far they travel? It is kind of scarey to me, on the one hand how great, on the other, what will it bring…

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