Space Probes Sent by Aliens Could Arrive in Reverse. Here's Why.

sciencealert.com ^ | 13 January 2023 By, | EVAN GOUGH

[TangoLimaSierra]

...because there’s bugger all here on earth.

OK, Eric.

[Doctor DNA]

“Do or do not. There is no try.” ...

... Yoda

[SunkenCiv]

"We're going to attempt, time, travel."

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Heinlein touched on it, in an oblique way, 50 years ago. Then there's The Mote in God's Eye.

[smokingfrog]

They sent the first one when they started detecting television signals.
They sent the second one after watching The Jerry Springer Show.

[BradyLS]

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.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“In reverse”

I had a car like that once. All the forward gears were jammed and only reverse worked.

[NWFree]

Newer probes could be faster to arrive than older probes

[Heartlander]

They're Made out of Meat

[NWFree]

Due to advancement in propulsion technologies

[Farmerbob]

Or they never advanced past the hunter gatherer, citizen sacrifice to deities stage.

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

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.

That's the basis for quantum entanglement communications..................

[higgmeister]

No one should be allowed to use an acronym for something that does not exist.

[pfflier]

This isn’t science.

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.

[ElkGroveDan]

This isn’t science - its navel gazing.

[central_va]

ETC chicks are easy.

[larrytown]

They sent the first one when they started detecting television signals.

They sent the second one after watching The Jerry Springer Show.

They'll send third which will be a massive weapon, after seeing Kardashian drek...

[T.B. Yoits]

Space Probes? No one is reaching out to Clown World.

[Clutch Martin]

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.