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Too late for that. Humanity has been broadcasting radio waves into deep space for more than a hundred years now, since the days of Marconi.


No, we haven't been. Of the signals that escape the ionosphere, all are indistinguishable from background noise by the time they reach Alpha Centauri. We're only really broadcasting within the solar system and a little beyond.

Even if we had been broadcasting a very strong signal from the first radio experiment in all directions into space, that would still be less than 0.1% of the galaxy.

We're fine. Aliens aren't watching The Honeymooners.




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