Bubble

Humanityโ€™s radio bubble.

Also mostly irrelevant, because at the rate a radio broadcast attenuates, beyond 20 or 30 light-minutes out from earth, unless you know exactly where to point a very large and powerful detector, information theory (a pretty damn hard and fast limit) says that nothing ever made could detect any non-directed normal-power broadcast.

So aliens in Alpha Centauri and beyond arenโ€™t watching Howdy Doody because the energy from that and anything else ever broadcast from earth is utterly and completely subsumed in and by the background noise of the universe.

Thereโ€™s been nothing weโ€™ve done that anyone not in this solar system could even know about in principle, with any technology.

Itโ€™d require a exawatt or maybe zettawatt laser to send a message to any place likely to harbor life, and then weโ€™d have to know exactly where to point the device.

Kind of casts a new light on the likelihood of SETI detecting alien life, really.

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