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Post by jandl100 on Dec 30, 2016 7:13:56 GMT
Personally, it gives me the heebiejeebies. But a group of (of course) Americans is planning to send laser messages to known planets circling nearby stars in an attempt to initiate communication with any technological civilisations there. If we get a return message, will the invasion fleet be far behind? Or maybe the first thing we know is when the slavers turn up. After all, it's what we would do. Human history is not very positive about advanced societies meeting less capable ones. futurism.com/meti-to-send-interstellar-messages-in-2018/ |
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Post by John on Dec 30, 2016 7:18:28 GMT
Time the message will take to reach alien life if it exists I will be long dead
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Post by jandl100 on Dec 30, 2016 7:42:50 GMT
4 years for the laser message to get to Proxima Centauri - the invaders arrive 5 years after that. Or maybe the following week if they have warp drive.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 10:41:19 GMT
As long as they don't spend my money on it, I'm not that bothered. I think the chances of there being other intelligent life in the universe are quite high, but the chances of us ever making contact are so close to zero that it's a huge waste of our scarce resources to try and make contact. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox |
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Post by MartinT on Dec 30, 2016 10:51:41 GMT
I tend towards Stephen Hawking's viewpoint: if they could get here at all, chances are they will not likely be benevolent.
All that protects us is distance and the speed of light.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 10:56:06 GMT
I believe any civilisation sufficiently advanced to reach us will also be well ahead of us intellectually and probably ethically. For that reason I'm not worried. I lean towards the belief that we have already been visited for millennia, so I've no worries about sending signals to other solar systems.
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Post by pre65 on Dec 30, 2016 10:59:07 GMT
I'm erring on the side of caution. 
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Post by Slinger on Dec 30, 2016 14:39:24 GMT
I haven't actually voted because I do care that it will (probably) never happen. I tend to think that if "they" were advanced enough to get here if they wanted to then they are also advanced enough to know all that they deem necessary to know about us already, and have made a conscious decision to stay at home.
Who really knows though? Maybe our own version of Dr. Zefram Cochrane will be born in 15 or so years, and thirty-ish years after that he'll be playing Steppenwolf's Magic Carpet Ride as he makes the first faster-than-light flight, which will capture the attention of the Vulcans, and then...oh...sorry...Vulcans are not real. (THEY told me to say that last bit).
Perhaps, eventually though, it will be us who are the aliens visiting other worlds and, I'd love to think, NOT enslaving or eating their indigenous populations.
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Post by ChrisB on Dec 30, 2016 14:47:24 GMT
So, just giving them diseases and exploiting their natural resources then?
We are human, after all!
Actually we'll probably get there and find that the Nigerian Prince with his money trapped in an offshore account has already been in touch.
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Post by MikeMusic on Dec 30, 2016 17:47:29 GMT
If they want free lunch they can easily find us.
Actively looking for them or just letting our noisy little planet carry on as is will be much the same
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