Comment on "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect."

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Or they got the signal and had no fucking clue what it was, like when we got that strange noise from space that happened just once and never again.

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  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If you’re thinking of the “Wow” signal, it turned out to be a magnetar

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Maybe aliens’ vaginas sounds like magnetars.

      All joking aside, it took us almost 40 years to figure that out, the aliens have only had 30, and in the magnetars case we can use other celestial bodies to help figure that out. Aliens have to figure out our vaginas from scratch.

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      • SARGE@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Aliens have to figure out our vaginas from scratch.

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’d be happy to figure out an alien’s vagina from scratch, just for the record.

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    • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      An invaginated magnetar.

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    • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or the perfectly reasonable response to intergalactic transmission of unsolicited coochie sounds.

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “New phone, who dis.”

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• SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Round trip time, dude. 3 years late.

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  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    per OP, signal reached T.C. in 1998
    T.C. is ~12 ly away
    if they responded that year we’d have got the message in 1998 + 12 = 2010
    that was 15 years ago

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