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mk  ·  4248 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Drake Equation: Are we alone?

My bet is that there is a much better way to chat between stars than EM, which drops off as the inverse square of the distance, and travels at c. It's terribly inefficient. We might outgrow radio in 50 years, and thereafter consider our SETI radio efforts as quaint.