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  "content_md": "One of my favorite topics is life on other planets. I was working through some of the ways I have come to think about this topic, and I asked ChatGPT: Has anyone researched how far away we could reasonably detect civilizations like ours in the galaxy?\n\nThe answer? Yes. **Someone has looked into it.** Just last year. And the answer is that [we really could not detect a civilization like ours](https://www.frontstageexit.com/p/three-obvious-reasons-why-the-fermi) anywhere in the universe, not unless they were basically actively trying to get our attention. And — even then — not very far away in cosmological terms (or even in terms of the Milky Way.",
  "content_html": "<p>One of my favorite topics is life on other planets. I was working through some of the ways I have come to think about this topic, and I asked ChatGPT: Has anyone researched how far away we could reasonably detect civilizations like ours in the galaxy?</p><p>The answer? Yes. <b>Someone has looked into it.</b> Just last year. And the answer is that <a href=\"https://www.frontstageexit.com/p/three-obvious-reasons-why-the-fermi\">we really could not detect a civilization like ours</a> anywhere in the universe, not unless they were basically actively trying to get our attention. And — even then — not very far away in cosmological terms (or even in terms of the Milky Way.</p>",
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