Subject: Re: Are SETI asumptions valid? (and does it matter if they aren't?)
From: Odysseus
Date: 05/02/2004, 14:37
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Peter Hickman wrote:

Contact via radio may be impossible due to the times involved. Radio is
not instant, there is a 1/4 to 1/2 second delay in transmitting signals,
via satellite, from the UK to Australia. Just imagine the delay over a
few light years.

Ummm ... a few years, right?

-- Odysseus 15# @ 35Y