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And even if it was, planet earth has been unremarkable and unnoticed except for the last 103 years. Why 103? Because Jan 13 1910 was when the first radio broadcast was made.
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I recall hearing years ago that the televised transmission of the 1936 Berlin Olympics was the first broadcast powerful enough to escape Earth's atmosphere and go out into space.
I think they used that idea in the movie Contact.