SETI Invites Alien Talk ("I see unseen cosmic entities")

CEH ^ | May 24, 2009

[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[Crazieman]

I think friendly is our only choice. If a civilization is advanced enough to reach us, we don’t stand a snowball’s chance in you know where to resist if they’re hostile. Play the cards we’re given right now.

[BipolarBob]

I have many conversations with my friends deep inside the earth.

[GodGunsGuts]

Best-In-Field-Fallacy

[ElkGroveDan]

“What would you say to an extraterrestrial civilization?”

Wanna trade?

[Mr. K]

Any civilization advanced enough to reach us would probably treat us the same way we treated the indians when we arrived here. Only more so

[Woebama]

I had some of the same thoughts the author had. My first thought of what to say was: “Even though this is a huge waste of time, since you don’t exist aliens in this time and space, and we haven’t heard from you, and have no reason to believe you exist . . . Jesus may love you. You’ll have to ask him for the details.”

[Brian Mosely]

“What would you say to an extraterrestrial civilization?”

I taste really, really awful...

[Crazieman]

Well we are in a kind of cosmically empty area of the neighborhood.

Should be about a 70 lightyear sphere around the earth of existing broadcasts. Our only hope of detecting anything would probably be similiar. We would suddenly pick up the equivalent of a alien radio variety hour.

[PackerBoy]

Whatever we say, it should be in Spanish if we are talking to aliens.

[Felis_irritable]

What I’d say...

I ask you, how can we, as symbolically the children of the future aliens, expect you to meet our needs, the needs in housing and in crime and you name it.

Yup, that’s what I’d say.

[RebelTex]

"What would you say to an extraterrestrial civilization?”

Take my wife President, - PLEASE!
And Congress, too.

[BipolarBob]

They would probably have an ALMOST indecipherable book entitle "To Serve Man".

[wolfcreek]

Same thing we tell our own aliens....Go Home!

[shibumi]

In comparing the possibilities of alien contact with Divine Revelation, I am reminded of an "earthy" saying often uttered by an old friend of mine, who happened to be a Cajun.


"Boy, you jus' steppin' over dollars to pick up nickels."

[GodGunsGuts]

That’s awesome! I have just incorporated that into my list of wise sayings :o)

[onedoug]

A waste of time and money.

[shibumi]

The aliens have already arrived and are living in our midst.

They can be ientified by their aspiration to high public office and their lack of Birth Certificates.

(Anybody got any bubblegum? No? well then i guess it’s time.....)

[GunRunner]

SETI is a waste of money. The Drake equation is an example of creative pop culture mathematics with little scientific value.