[baudrunner]

The point that I was making is that, listen - we have totally lost contact with veeger, I mean Voyager, and it is only a little ways into the solar system's halo and moving only a little farther away every century. Let's be realistic. Look up at the night sky during a new moon. There are literally billions of suns out there and their combined light cannot even light up the night sky enough for us to see without car headlights and flashlights or campfires or floodlights. We all know how much energy is generated by a sun. How is one tiny little power plant going to provide enough energy to transmit radio waves that we can demodulate into coherent information even if it were only as close to us as the next star over, four light years away? I can tell you now that there is no nearby intelligent life, that we are probably the only civilised planet within our own star cluster and that we couldn't possibly receive intelligent transmission of information from any of them even if there were. Get it? Of course there is other intelligent life out there, we are out there. But forget trying to communicate with it over those kinds of distances.