anything and we haven t heard a peep, really, from out there. do you think we re being listened to right now? yeah, possibly. so the big fear, i think is we announce our presence and then the aliens come and then enslave us or put us in a zoo or whatever. and there have been entertaining science fiction stories that capture just those themes. so that s the fear factor. but what are we doing? we re mostly listening. we have giant radio telescopes pointing in different directions with highly sophisticated circuitry that listens to billions of radio frequencies simultaneously to see if anybody s whispering on any one of them at any place in the universe. so that s different from sending signals out. we re not sending signals out on purpose. we re sending them out accidentally. oura radio bubble is about 70 light years away from us right now and on the frontier of that bubble has the i love lucy show, the honeymooners.