If there are alien astronomers in a neighboring solar system (say, on the exoplanets orbiting Trappist-1, a star that’s 40 light years or so away), they might spot the signal from our little corner of the galaxy. The study suggests that we could even send a Morse code-style message with the laser by using pulses. …
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