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Do we dare let aliens know we’re here?
MSN ^
| 8/17/10
| Clara Moskowitz
Posted on 08/18/2010 11:43:50 AM PDT by LibWhacker
SANTA CLARA, Calif. Even if humanity could reach out to an intelligent alien civilization, scientists are polarized over whether we should.
Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has argued that the extraterrestrials we contacted would be likely to harm us, a view that divided the experts here at the SETIcon convention.
*SNIP*
However, Douglas Vakoch, director of interstellar message composition at the SETI Institute, said of aliens: "Even if they tend to be hateful, awful folks, can they do us any harm at interstellar distances?"
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: aliens; hawking; meti; seti
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To: MHGinTN
I find it hard to believe we could possibly be the worst thing out there.
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:00:04 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: LibWhacker
I think the Mexicans know we're here whether we inform them or not.
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:00:49 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.)
To: himno hero
Have you ever read the real history of how the koran came to be a book? ... Even momronism is more organized in their lies on their origins.
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:00:59 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Dem voters, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when deceived.)
To: LibWhacker
They have already been here and left.
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:01:15 PM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Playing by the rules only works if both sides do it!)
To: LibWhacker
This is a very real threat. It threatens to snuff out human life within the century. I call it Global Cacophony® and propose that all nations except nations we have no control over developing nations like China reduce their transmitter outputs to pre-1950 levels and nightly brownouts be enacted immediately. The fate of our planet depends on it! And all the children say, "Don't be a Global Cacophony® denier, you Nazi!!!
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:01:24 PM PDT
by
randog
(Tap into America!)
To: GunsAndBibles
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:01:27 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: brytlea
Ah, but that doesn’t preclude we are on the quarantine list.
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:01:59 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Dem voters, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when deceived.)
To: mikrofon
there is an old sci fi short story where one of those greetings gold records is mistaken for a menu...
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:02:19 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Only1choice____Freedom
You mean they have bought into the whole “hopey change” thing??
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:02:28 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: brytlea
I find it hard to believe we could possibly be the worst thing out there. If an advanced civilization scouted earth and only visited Iran, North Korea, and Cambridge it would not report back favorably.
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:04:11 PM PDT
by
AU72
To: ThirdMate
Or they could view us like we view locusts. Better to not know them.
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:05:18 PM PDT
by
omega4179
(JD Hayworth)
To: LibWhacker
This alien yes
This alien no
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:05:38 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: MHGinTN
There is that. ;) We are the unwashed.
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:05:43 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: AU72
Ok, you do make an excellent point.
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:07:18 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
"They're technologically advanced and so they have obviously evolved into a peaceful species..."
35
posted on
08/18/2010 12:09:58 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Will must be the harder, courage the bolder, spirit must be the more, as our might lessens.)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:11:09 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: BenLurkin
"I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad."
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:11:44 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: MrEdd
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:12:37 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: LibWhacker
Yet more Hawking nonsense.
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posted on
08/18/2010 12:14:28 PM PDT
by
onedoug
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