Only a childish liberal would run from information because its “scary”.
I’d be happy to set things up so that we would be 100% guaranteed to NOT be contacted by aliens.
I’ll do it for only $250,000 (negotiable).
I don’t know about ‘a’ message, but if we start receiving lots of them, we should create a rule to automatically move them to Spam.
Reading is one thing, answering it is another.
By the subject line ?
If it’s signed Boris, it should be passed on to McCain so he can give it to Mueller.
If it’s from aliens you may as well delete it if you can’t read Spanish.
You betcha. And I'm not taking any chances. I received this message back in 1992, and I've been in my underground bunker ever since.
If it is really from Aliens, you will not be able to delete it.
CAUTION: if there are attachments, do NOT open!
They may infect us with a virus.
On a more serious note, the culture of our nation (and perhaps the world) would find another fight to last for decades/centuries. So we delete or not? Do we reply or not? And IF we reply do we warn, invite, or adopt and send money?
While there is the slight possibility of an “if you can read this you’re a threat, now we’re going to destroy, sorry” message it’s not actually likely. Anybody trying to decide if we’re a threat can probably figure it out with a couple of observation missions. By the time somebody makes contact they’ll have already made the slaves/ destroy/ allies decision, and if they’re not leading with explosions and stuff they probably like us. Might as well open the mail.
There is no way to hide the fact that there is intelligent life on Earth (except in the office of the PM of Canada).
If they want to send a message they will, but it seems ridiculous to think they would indiscriminately send out destructive messages with no hope of ever finding out if they have destroyed us.
The time delay makes the idea of having a conversation ridiculous.
The search is only to satisfy our curiosity, and for some, to “disprove” the Judeo-Christian world view.
Detecting a coherent message, containing information, isn’t going to prove there’s no God, as some fondly hope for.
Assorted stray radio transmissions from earth quickly dissipate to nothing.
Weak signals received by the Aricebo radio telescope are generated by assorted cosmic eruptions of mindboggling energy. Not a chance any of the signals received by Aricebo were generated by stray alien television transmissions.
Depends on whether the message is in Spanish....
No worries, it ain’t gonna happen cause there are no ETs out there. Thank God cause where there any and they knew about us, it would end badly.
I think if we just click no on the Read Receipt we’ll be ok. Except somebody’s well-meaning grandma somewhere will click yes and doom us all.
Earth is the planet spamming the galaxy and humans aren’t doing it to advance alien lifeforms. Their agenda to to exploit:
See? Humans are not alone!
Think of what we can do with their technology!
I for one welcome our new ant overlords!
Etc
historians would also proclaim that everything from fire, the wheel, pyramids, the arch, computers, et al were gifts by more advanced aliens.