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by exe34 77 days ago
And in that light, you're worried two blocks the size of a small car will get picked up on the alien's hyperspace scanners?
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I'm not, but other people seem to think it's a problem worth worrying about.
Yet we spend tax dollars trying to do the same thing.
No, we don't. If you're talking about SETI, that's looking at radio signals. If you're talking about killer asteroid early-warning detection, we generally don't have the capacity to reliably detect voyager-sized asteroids even in our own solar system, let alone in interstellar space.