Neighbor | Known Universe

are you the type who always says hi to
the neighbors maybe share a little
harmless gossip over the back fence
or perhaps you need to borrow their
lawnmower
or some other tool but what if you
wanted to get to know potential
neighbors in outer space
well planets across our galaxy are far
far away so getting to a possibly
inhabited planet they take a long time
if we wanted to pop over and borrow a
cup of sugar it would take some 700,000
years for us to bring the sugar home so
that’s a very big problem okay
traveling to an alien civilization
clearly isn’t going to work
but perhaps when you just give them a
call after all radio signals travel at
the speed of light if we are going to
communicate with aliens that’s gonna be
the most boring conversation we’ve ever
had because if they’re beaming radio
waves at us and they’re a hundred
light-years away and they say hey how’s
the weather down there on earth it takes
a hundred years to get here and then we
say it’s fine how are things there on
glog narf another hundred years and then
they in a back-and-forth it’s a century
travel time myth that’s a boring
conversation in other words
communication between two possibly
intelligent civilizations is a long shot
so if you need sugar best to ask someone
closer to home the universe now you know