Milky Way Club
Introduction This brief Milky Way Club website assumes that aliens are real, but most of its content is valid even if aliens have never visited us. With the invention of radio a little over 100 years ago, an extremely rare event occurred: the emergence of a pre-KANIC (Knowledge Acquiring Neuro-Intensive Civilization). Some time in the next 100 or 200 years, humankind will join the ranks of the rest of the KANICs in our galaxy. If you assume aliens are real, it follows that planets supporting life in our galaxy are abundant. Lets assume the aliens (members of the nearest KANIC to Earth) arrived, and began visiting us, around 1950. Radio was invented around 1905, or 45 years earlier. Dividing by 2 means that KANIC is less than 25 light years away. They received our radio signals around or before 1930, and at that point alerted the rest of the KANICs in our galaxy about our emergence. So now we're the centre of attention of at least 1 KANIC, and within 100,000 years (the diameter o