Earth 'Noise' Could Attract Alien Invaders

New Scientist ^ | 5-3-2008

[blam]

Earth 'noise' could attract alien invaders

03 May 2008
From New Scientist Print Edition.

No matter how quiet we try to be now it's too late to prevent alien invaders. So says Alexander Zaitsev of the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics in Moscow, Russia, who points the finger at astronomers.

For 40 years, astronomers have fired microwaves off objects to chart near-Earth space and track the movement of close asteroids - and these signals are traceable back to us. By comparison, Zaitsev says, dedicated transmissions - often described as "shouting into an unknown jungle" - are a mere whisper. He calculates the astronomy signals have filled an area of the sky 2000 times greater than dedicated broadcasts have managed to date (www.arxiv.org/0804.2754).

[BenLurkin]

This movie had me literally hiding behind the sofa...

“People of Earth attention. People of Earth attention. This is a voice speaking to you from thousands of miles beyond your planet...”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o4fdX8gUMY

[tbw2]

I’ve already written on this topic in “SETI in Reverse” on Amazon.com (Downloadable Kindle, 99 cents)

[G Larry]

Interesting how we assign human traits, emotions, and characteristics to potenial aliens.....

[Berlin_Freeper]

They are already here making noise for the others to follow...

[blam]

"The man has a PhD. in Astrophysics."
"Just the kind of "moron" that would be forced off FR."

I thought of that during the recent 'fundraiser'.

[UCANSEE2]

"Either that or they will sell are selling tickets to the freak show. "

[UCANSEE2]

“As to the noise output of the Earth, if aliens are stupid enough to come here they deserve what happens to them.”

And that’s why they don’t stay long.

[UCANSEE2]

“Just the kind of “moron” that would be forced off FR. “

Reminds me, Where is Radio Astronomer these days?

[Soliton]

I bet they can’t wait for the final episode of ER!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Global Warming has already done so. The terraforming is already under way. It’s too late.

[mothball]

“And Slim Whitman albums.”

I prefer Boxcar Willie.

[Soliton]

The guy’s a moron. What are the chances that a civilization lasting long enough to develop faster-than-light interstellar travel would still be violent enough to want to conquer another planet?

It's not about the numbers, Intergalactic Delegates will decide if they could get here or not.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Apples and oranges: Those societies are internally cohesive and outwardly aggressive for only a few score years at best. Then they are thrust into inevitable bursts of internal violence.

The more technologically advanced - the more likely those civil wars will wipe out most or all of the population.

It is more probable that a civilizations advance into technology is inverse to its tendency to be aggressive.

[uglybiker]

"Either that or they will sell are selling tickets to the freak show.

It's on network TV!

[Sherman Logan]

Yup.

However, I think it is at least as likely that aliens would be the equivalent of Predator as the equivalent of ET or Ghandi. Or they might have alien motivations for wiping us out that we might never be able to understand.

[UCANSEE2]

That movie just proves one thing, for sure.

Those dang aliens drive worse than 80 year old chinese women.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Oh, puleeze.

[JimC214]

Here’s the obligatory “WE’RE All GONNA DIE” Post.

[Steve Van Doorn]

you are saying people on FR force off those that have PhD in specific subjects?

[Bobalu]