Researchers using China’s new Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), the largest single-dish scope in the world, are piecing together a technological strategy to carry out a major and sweeping search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). What if China someday announces that this hunt has been successful? How would such a claim be verified, and what might the consequences be? And could an unofficial international SETI race already be underway? Space.com asked several SETI authorities to flesh out the implications of China being the first nation to get a ping from ET.
That is the true purpose of the 5G network.
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Why bother. If there were really aliens why have we never seen any indication of them except for 1950s flying saucer movies.
Why would they? It seems to me analogous to us talking to a colony of ants.
There’s nobody out there
ETs are maintaining social distance and won’t come closer than 6 lightyears (and that’s a measure of distance, for those in Rio Linda)
One has to have incredible hubris to imagine that some advanced alien species still uses the electromagnetic spectrum to communicate. Looking in all the wrong places with the wrong tools.
See James Clerk Maxwell’s 200 field equations, the mathematician that made both Tesla and Einstein the men they became.
I think E.T. used to exist, but they had dirt on Hillary.
Yeah, ahem... America had the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world FOR OVER 50 YEARS. That didn't work out too well in the ET searching game. Now China is going to repeat that rather embarrassing long-standing failed strategy.
Einstein had a word for that: Insanity.
Even if the Chinese contact aliens first, we know they don’t speak Chinee. Every space movie since 1950 shows that aliens would speak Amurican.
Active seti was a pretty big controversy, if I recall. They just started beaming stuff out at interesting things, a bunch of the board quit over it.
Freegards
the Chinese best leave it to the US - space aliens don’t speak Chinese...
The atheist - Uh Uh... No way in the entire universe God even could exists!
If you believe in God, or in the possibility Gods existence, you are a dangerois threat to society, a public enemy of humanity.
Now where were we...?
Oh yes, with your taxpayer dollars, we intend to spend hundreds of billions dollars in search of what we believe must be out there somewhere, and hopefully find intelligent life on other planets, or in other galaxies! Maybe even an intelligent being who put us here!
Standing ovations...
Hey, it’s 2020. Now it would be “ET, phone homo.”
That photo looks like something out of an old sci-fly movie. 55 gallon drums bolted to a snow saucer. And how come the one in the foreground has a concrete footing, and all the others are in the dirt?