THE BEACON
The Galactic Queue: "First Come, First Served" in a Two-Trillion Galaxy Universe
The opportunity for humanity to answer the “Wow” signal is restricted to a narrow 80-year window, of which 44 years have already elapsed, leaving a shrinking timeframe to signal the Assembly. Because there are over two trillion galaxies and countless other potential species, the Assembly operates on a “first come, first served” basis, meaning Earth must “chirp” now or risk being permanently ignored in the vast cosmic queue.
THE BEACON
The Galactic Queue: "First Come, First Served" in a Two-Trillion Galaxy Universe
The opportunity for humanity to answer the “Wow” signal is restricted to a narrow 80-year window, of which 44 years have already elapsed, leaving a shrinking timeframe to signal the Assembly. Because there are over two trillion galaxies and countless other potential species, the Assembly operates on a “first come, first served” basis, meaning Earth must “chirp” now or risk being permanently ignored in the vast cosmic queue.
Image: The Hubble Ultra Deep Field, is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, composited from Hubble Space Telescope data accumulated over a period from September 3, 2003 through January 16, 2004. The patch of sky in which the galaxies reside was chosen because it had a low density of bright stars in the near-field (Photo by NASA and the European Space Agency via Wikimedia Commons)
Source: RD, "All about the Beacon " r/InsurrectionEarth, Reddit, (September 10, 2018) https://www.reddit.com/r/InsurrectionEarth/comments/9ehyzf/all_about_the_beacon/
garbotalk: Why do we only have an 80 year window, 44 of which have passed? If the Assembly is listening for chirping worlds to send a reply to their wow signal beacon, why would they stop listening?
Reptiliandude: There are over two trillion galaxies Garbotalk. Pick a number. First come, first served.
Garbotalk: My special snowflake mentality rears its ugly head again lol.
