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microchips and a few other important things. But in less than 1000 years things could be back to where they are now. Compared to the 4 billion years life has been on this planet, that 1000 years is not much. So while I can imagine scenarios with a slight delay in getting out into the galaxy, I don't see how it could be stopped altogether.
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signal, say 3 HZ. To generate such a signal you want electrons moving one way and then the other 3 times per second. This causes other electrons to move a bit, which causes others to move a bit, etc. and so propagating the wave all around the world. The positions of every electron on every atom
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and there is nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound?. While there must be stuff to generate or detect light, could it propagate through really empty space? Maybe we have never really had empty space to try things out with. Even the vacuum of space still has some matter.
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