Posted on 10/15/2007 11:54:55 PM PDT by LibWhacker
eh,
Let’s just find the signal first.
Then worry if they want to “serve man”.
Which I seriously doubt they would.
Should we broadcast messages intentionally designed to be received by extraterrestrial civilizations, thereby notifying them of our existence?
No !
However, if hypothetically such extraterrestrial sentients exist, would be against trying to contact them until humanity has at least one self-sufficient colony in another star system not nearby to the Solar System. Many believe that these aliens would just kindly give their more advanced technology to humans. Why? This flies in the face of human logic.
If humans met some less advanced species of sentients, would humans give their technology for free? Probably not. Even in intra-human cases where more advanced (technologically, not genetically) people transfer information to more primitive people, it is usually not for free. Aid to Africa, for instance, has 'selfish' economic and militaristic driver in many cases.
If humans met a people with whom humanity was not related, and a people who were genetically beneath the human race, it is pretty clear what would probably happen. If they had something of value, humans would exploit them--via slavery--or wipe them out (type, if they had a habitable world for humans, but didn't want human colonists to slowly breed and multiply and take over their planet).
So why would humans expect these aliens for freely give their technology and not exploit humans? There's little advantage to contacting them at this stage, and plenty of risk.
To the wild card line.
... west of the rockies ...
These people have too much time on their hands.
Uh, OK. Do you think they might be after your "stash"?
In b4 illegal aliens...lol, just kidding.
Interesting article bump!
OTOH, IF there are other intelligent beings out there, I sincerely hope they are a billion light years away!
Well if we ever do attract the attention of ET, we better have faster space ships and better weaponry than they do or else we're going to be on the wrong end of colonization.
This might appeal to some liberals, but conservatives sort of like being on the top end of the pecking order when the shooting starts. And knowledge of that characteristic is what usually keeps others from testing our resolve.
Suppose that there are millions of civilizations in the Universe, and humanity is the most moral?
All members of the human race except for Christ are degenerate and corrupted; are bad stewards, and 'the flame' in your post will be snuffed out.
However, those who believe in Christ, while degenerate and corrupt, will be 'perfected' (to use a word which has come into some controversy recently) and humanity will be transformed into a race that is good and faultless--perfect, the way humans were originally intended to be.
There is a pretty fundamental flaw here. Assuming that such life exists elsewhere in the “nearby” universe, any message sent by any electromagnetic means (including light, radio, etc.) only travels at the speed of light. It takes centuries, traveling at that highest possible speed, to reach other “nearby” places in the universe. So, assuming a message would be sent, received, and then replied to, we are talking about centuries in the very least to complete one simple communication.
First, I have to believe there’s lots of intellent life out there. The place is too large and full of possibilities.
The real question is, if anyone did hear us is there any real chance for them to be able to travel from there to here. If not, so what if they know we’re here.
We've had the evolution of consciousness and it's taken 11,000 years for us to get to a state that we call humanity if you wanna call it that.
The one fact that always bugs me is that one day life on earth won't be possible anymore so in order to survive we will have to look for another habitat somewhere else so the question is how many other conscious civilizations are there out there that have already been forcefully ejected from their planets of origin and are now probing the universe for a new home???.
Trying to communicate across cosmic distances using ANY form of electromagnetic radiation would be like me trying to send a message to Germany by splashing stones in Baltimore harbor and hoping the Germans could read the message on the ripple waves when they got there. Anybody who would do that is not an advanced civilization and SETI is a colossal waste of money.
Resistance is futile.
So, how’s all that ansible research going?
The Democrats would grant them immunity and invite them to join their party?
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