Super-Earth Found in Its Star's Habitable Zone

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

If there's any life on the planet, they aren't at the stage where they can broadcast radio transmissions.

[fusi0n]

22 light years away? Thats only 440,000 years away in our current space ships, not that long.

I have to agree with you here.. Its pretty close..

[Hum]

If there's any life on the planet, they aren't at the stage where they can broadcast radio transmissions.

Maybe everything goes thru underground cables.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

Maybe everything goes thru underground cables.

Even the use of our direct broadcast satellites have reduced our own radio footprints much faster than the first SETI engineers assumed would happen.

[Southern Patriot]

Maybe everything goes thru underground cables.

Or maybe their broadcast technology is so different than ours that our equipment simply can't recognize it.Since the planet is only 22 light years away, they wouldn't have had to have developed a newer type of broadcast technology all that long ago for us to have never heard any of their older broadcasts.

[Davo]

Whether or not it's possible to visit in our lifetime is irrelevant. It should be an eye-opener that we're not the only thing in the universe that matters.

[Hum]

^ That should go without saying. ;)

[Solid Knight]

If there's any life on the planet, they aren't at the stage where they can broadcast radio transmissions.

If they developed it at the same time we did, would wouldn't detect them for quite a while.