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Comment by dcanelhas

13 hours ago

After the transition to digital TV our broadcasted signals mostly look like noise, though. Maybe an outside observer would assume that our civilization ended sometime in 2010.

You can still see from far away that our planet's atmosphere has a very unusual chemical composition that's far out of equilibrium.

We are already using spectroscopy to gain insights into the chemical composition of exo-planets, and we have barely begun doing this kind of research. In even just a few decades we'll be massively better at this.