That doesn't take into account civilizations that would just want to advertise their existence in general.

It means that we are a proverbial needle in the haystack. Actually, we're like a grain of sand in a stack of haystacks.

Ah, right.
In other news, further on the hurricane:

Head of forecasting at Met Éireann Gerald Fleming said it looked likely that the effects of Ophelia will be felt most strongly in the southwest counties of Cork and Kerry.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Mr Fleming said if the current track of the hurricane continues, it looks like it will pass over the country fairly quickly on Monday and may bring heavy rains.

Doesn't sound as if my house is going to end up in Kansas or anything, but if it does, how's anyone there fixed to put me, my sister and our two cats up?

I guess they should be glad punishments aren't decided by band name.

On the plus-side, I'm sure their albums sales are up.

Quote was from Forbes.

National Hurricane Center

All I can say is that if a hurricane is coming your way be prepared. Especially with your sister. Have a supply of food and water a flashlight and radio and batteries and medicine. Be prepared for no water and no electricity. I hope it doesn't hit you like that. Where I live it's a constant worry during hurricane season. Nate, Harvey, and Irma all clipped us but luckily just on the peripheral.

I remember that anthill hypothesis from Michio Kaku. Iirc, he makes that point in The Physics of the Impossible. Fun book. The retort is the same as I said to Frown. Other theoretical physicists will argue that it doesn't account for alien life that wants to be seen. It's not just dependent on them noticing us. And to say we can't notice them because we're as relatively simple as ants still doesn't account for the diversity of communication that could be expected from the Drake equation. It should be they exist at varying points of technological advances.

Frownland mentions scope as a synonym for scale. If they're 3 billion light years away no matter how you slice it they're 3 billion years away from any sort of contact.

You don't need to hit the eye-wall to have your roof torn off. Just keep an eye on that cone.

Tell that to C-Murder.

Yeah. Imagine what would happen if Cannibal Corpse broke the law?
Met Eireann says it's likely to hit Cork and the southern seaboard worst. They usually get the worst flooding anyway. Dublin is usually quite safe, and from what they're saying it seems as if it should be nowhere near as severe as it has been in the US and other places. If the electric goes we're ****ed, as I need that to allow Karen's bed to go up and down and also to keep her orthopaedic mattress inflated. There's not a whole lot I can do to be honest, but these houses are well built and we're at the top of a hill so there shouldn't be any real appreciable flooding. Plus it's meant to move away fairly quickly. A Yellow Warning is bad, but not critical.
Yeah that was him. God I love that guy. Such fun. Did you see the one where he tried to do all sort of theoretically impossible things, like build a time machine? So entertaining.
Got it. Thanks. Just a one-word comment was leaving me a little confused as to what it meant with no real context given.

No, I haven't but I agree he's fun.