Posted on 01/17/2023 10:02:28 AM PST by BenLurkin
Imagine if a robotic probe arrived in our Solar System, sent by an ETC. They detected us and sent their probe to introduce themselves and learn more about us.
Then imagine our sensors detect another incoming probe from the same place as the previous one. Imagine our surprise when we retrieve it, and begin to study it, only to find that it's not as advanced as the previous one and contains older information and messages than the first one.
That's exactly what might happen, according to Graeme Smith. Smith is a professor and an astronomer at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California.
Smith points out that sending probes on journeys of such extreme distances means the first one received wouldn't be the first one that was sent. As technology advances, we can expect probes to become faster. Eventually, a probe launched later than its predecessor would overtake its predecessor and reach the destination first.
The first probe [sent] might not even be interstellar, at least not on purpose. Our own Voyager probes can rightly be called interstellar probes, though that wasn't their intent. The same could be true for an ETC just embarking on a program of sending probes to other star systems.
"If an object sent by an interstellar ETC were to enter the Solar System, chances are it would not be a relic artifact that is perhaps analogous to a timeworn Voyager-like probe, but rather one might expect a vehicle of much greater sophistication, even if it were no longer functioning," Smith writes.
"As Hawking (2010) and others have drawn attention to, some potential consequences of such a first-contact event might be of serious concern for humanity."
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
OK, Eric.
“Do or do not. There is no try.” ...
... Yoda
They sent the first one when they started detecting television signals.
They sent the second one after watching The Jerry Springer Show.
The theory reminds me of the old 1956 Robert Heinlein novel, _Time for the Stars._
A series of low-tech torchships built by the Long Range Foundation is sent out to explore the nearby systems, using the conceit that telepathic twins and triplets (and their attuned progeny) can communicate “almost instantaneously” across the vast distances between Earth and the accelerating ships.
The torchship the protagonist is assigned to is eventually recovered by a technologically more advanced LRF starship from Earth.
“In reverse”
I had a car like that once. All the forward gears were jammed and only reverse worked.
Newer probes could be faster to arrive than older probes
Due to advancement in propulsion technologies
Or they never advanced past the hunter gatherer, citizen sacrifice to deities stage.
That's the basis for quantum entanglement communications..................
No one should be allowed to use an acronym for something that does not exist.
It is mostly skewed by our own fiction writers at that.
The assumption that we can communicate on any sort of common level is baffling. We have many languages and methods of transmitting them here on earth where the vast majority of inhabitants don't understand each other.
How would we pretend to understand a communications from a civilization where we have no common references? We are conditioned to believe that those alien cultures are vastly more intelligent and they would initiate communications with us.
It only happens in the movies.
This isn’t science - its navel gazing.
ETC chicks are easy.
Space Probes? No one is reaching out to Clown World.
The History Channel doest televise mucho boolsheet.
UAE’s and UFO’s and all that garbaģe is a diversion.
If not...They travel in the 4th Dimension and as some of us know the 4th Dimension is the dimension of time. So traveling in the fourth dimension probably means they’re either from an ancient civilization that was technologically advanced or they’re from a future civilization that is far technologically advanced.
All we have to do is meet one.. which will never happen.
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