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Posted on 02/28/2015 4:34:21 PM PST by NRx
...So began SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a form of astronomical inquiry that has captured the imaginations of people around the planet but has so far failed to detect a single “hello.” Pick your explanation: They’re not there; they’re too far away; they’re insular and aloof; they’re zoned out on computer games; they’re watching us in mild bemusement and wondering when we’ll grow up.
Now some SETI researchers are pushing a more aggressive agenda: Instead of just listening, we would transmit messages, targeting newly discovered planets orbiting distant stars. Through “active SETI,” we’d boldly announce our presence and try to get the conversation started.
Naturally this is controversial, because of . . . well, the Klingons. The bad aliens.
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That flick was terrible! Where’s Dolph?
SQUINT is the acronym I use for an idea called
S earch for
QU antum
INT ellegence
Have wondered why SETI limits their search to the outer universe
The Microcosm is just as vast
If intelligent life were found in the microcosm it would be much easier to correspond with
I could go on but expect to be clobbered here for just saying this much
See #20
So the proponents are being a little disingenuous: "Even if there are unfriendlies out there, they already know about us." Horse hockey! Even if they are out there, most of them, and perhaps even all of them, wouldn't have intercepted our broadcasts yet, and it's not too late to go silent; the leading edge of those early broadcasts is extremely attenuated by now and difficult to pick up. We just have to hope that unfriendlies within a hundred light years of us don't have the technology to detect them. In any event, it's obvious that very, very few intelligent species as a percentage of the whole in our galaxy know about us based on those early I Love Lucy type broadcasts. Let's keep it that way!
On the other hand, they could be a bit too friendly.
Me too.
Ming was my kind of a bloodthirsty despot.
We come from a galaxy 50,000,000,000 light years away. Prepare to be probed.
Every day we hear nothing increases the chances that we are alone. How sad that will be if true. That said I am against rushing out without scoping out the lie of the land. Further we should become an interstellar civilization with some time amoung the stars before we go around announcing our presence. Folks out there may know we are here, if so they are not talking.
But that never gets brought up.
/johnny
Good point. As the micro so the macro.
Until there’s evidence of life beyond this blue orb it’s just as “correct” to say that we’re it, as it is to assume that we’re not. Seems highly unlikely in light of the apparent scale of the universe, but until it’s known it’s conjecture.
Agree. Very tongue in cheek and self deprecating humor. Charles Nelson Reilly was a riot.
/johnny
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