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10/9/2013 1:46:04 PM
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Should we be sending out radio signals to aliens?
Foil-hat time!
So SETI thinks it's a good idea to advertise our presence to (providing they exist) extraterrestrials.
This strikes me, and Stephen Hawking, as rather stupid.
Why would we want to be found? The aliens would just show up, take a look at our government shutdown, and fry us with their exhaust as they left the system in disgust.
(Okay, they might get along with the Canadians)
Examining it from a science fiction point of view, I suppose we might have the good fortune to contact a peaceful race who is actively seeking to advance primitive creatures, but I find it more likely we'd just attract the attention of some sort of space pirate fleet.
Assuming that intelligent aliens exist, should we be trying to make contact? Our normal radio waves, such as TV broadcasts, get fuzzed out before they even reach the nearest star, but launching a high powered beam into space is a bit different.
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2 RepliesI am certain one of the following theories is true: 1. Men in Black is based on real life events. 2. Stargate is based on real life events. (i.e. the government is keeping the existence and contact with alien life a secret.) 3. Alien species capable of interstellar travel have a prime directive.
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1 ReplyHonestly I think intelligent life is EXTREMELY rare in this galaxy, if it were common, we would see its architecture all over the place, modified star system, nebulas, black holes, etc. but we see nothing. It out there, but it's either millions of LYs away or in another galaxy.
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if there's a species that's capable of picking them up AND coming to us, then it is greater than us and we should be honored by the privilege of being painfully converted into protein goo.
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We've been doing that since the invention of the radio dumbass... And even if we did intentionally send a message that was eventually received by an alien race, they most likely wouldn't get it for thousands or even millions of years, by which time we will probably have colonized half the galaxy.
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Unless somebody gets into government that understands the benefits of space exploration (like seriously, what are we going to do in fifty years if people are already complaining about immigrants and rising populations?) then we might need aliens to help get us off the planet.
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Whether they're peaceful or not, I still live the idea. Humanity sucks. You guys should join seti@home.
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Ever heard of mass effect 3? Yeah I don't want any reapers around just yet
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1 ReplyAliens probably know we exist but they know humanity is too stupid so they stay away from us.
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1 ReplyWe should send out unencrypted youtube comments. That'll keep them away.
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Only if it's XM.
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8 RepliesThink about what humans would do if we found a brand new planet capable of sustaining life and has a large amount of resources. Don't know? Then let me ask you this. What did we do to Native Americans?
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1 ReplyEdited by Mr Mulberry: 10/10/2013 12:46:02 AMI feel like if its really hard for us to find life, wouldn't it be hard for aliens too. So if they found us their intensions would be peaceful... Maybe
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I'd assume we have already been noticed, but because we are so meagre and primitive that they decided to wait until we matured.
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If extra terrestrials are out there and are smart enough to "pick up" our signals from so far away. They already knew we were here.
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The problem with Hawking is that he thinks that aliens act like humans. They probably don't. And even if they do act like humans, then by the time that they're spacefaring, they would have already realized (just as we have) that genocide is bad. I'm not saying that humans don't commit genocide anymore, but our space travelers (read: scientists) certainly would not.
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Vien liked my post about us killing him....So wat do
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We have heard your signals. We are not impressed by your tiny planet.
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We should kill Vien
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6 RepliesIt'll take them several decades just to get here. I doubt slaves are worth such a trip, and neither is our resources. If aliens ever came for resources in our solar system, Earth is a terrible choice when unguarded planets with either more or the same amount of resources exist. The only nefarious, exploiting purpose they could have for landing on Earth is for food sources and medicine, and maybe to take some technology that they don't have. Any scientists that says these guys would have every technology possible don't realize that it would only take humanity a few decades to have long-range space travel, if we felt like having it.
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Well how else are going to keep radio waves from leaving our atmosphere? Encase earth in a sphere or something?
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Think of what Christopher Columbus did when he came to the Americas...or at least the "white men". He wrote that he would be able to take control of them in his journal...so...yeah.
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I agree with OP If there is anything out there we could be asking for trouble or we could be neutral or allies. And seeing how disorganized this world is they would either be closer to a global harmony than us, in the same spot, or worse. (If worse, then we could be in for trouble)
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What are we going to do if we do find them? Be enslaved by them, courtesy of their far-superior technologically unbelievable achievements? Hope that they take us to a larger, more sustainable planet than earth? Live with them? How will we even speak with them? Who says that they'll give a damn if they know we exist? Waste of time, if you ask me.
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1 ReplyNo, it's a waste of time. We should be sending out farts and canisters with poop in them to scare any and all aliens off.
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I don't care.
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Edited by Seggi: 10/10/2013 12:36:40 AMimplying they'd actually have the capability to visit our planet, and that if they did they'd expend all of that effort just to gain resources that could much more easily and cheaply be generated in their systems, or other ones that are closer than ours.
