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"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." (lemmy.nz)

submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Tau Ceti is only 12 ly away

1998 + 12 = 2010

So they're like 15 years late replying to the pussy call. Either they are too old and slow or they have so much already they're just too busy

[-] tyler@programming.dev 22 points 9 months 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.

[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 17 points 9 months ago

If you're thinking of the "Wow" signal, it turned out to be a magnetar

[-] tyler@programming.dev 14 points 9 months 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.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

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

[-] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Round trip time, dude. 3 years late.

[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 8 points 9 months 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