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Sorry, how so? Here's what I said:

"I think with the time scales involved, chances are that anyone communicating with us would be significantly more advanced."

In both my original comment and my clarification I was clearly talking about only aliens who were communicating with us.




"communicating with us" != "contacted us"

The initial poster was talking about a hypothetical question we sent in 1912, meaning we contacted them, and they are communicating with us (they replied). You replied without changing the order of who contacted who.




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