What Message, If Any Should We Send To Aliens ?

Started by mongers, February 12, 2015, 04:28:25 PM

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February 12, 2015, 04:28:25 PM Last Edit: February 12, 2015, 04:31:18 PM by mongers
QuoteScientist: 'Try to contact aliens'
By Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, BBC News

Scientists at a US science conference have said it is now time to actively try to contact intelligent life on other worlds.

Researchers involved in the search for extra-terrestrial life are considering what the message from Earth should be.

The call has been made by at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Jose.

But others argued that making our presence known might be dangerous.

Researchers at Seti have been listening for signals from outer space for more than 30 years using radio telescope facilities in the US. So far there has been no sign of ET.

The organisation's director, Dr Seth Shostak told scientists at the AAAS meeting that it is now time to step up the search.

"Some of us at the institute are interested in 'active Seti', not just listening but broadcast something maybe to some nearby stars because maybe there is some chance that if you wake somebody up you'll get a response," he told BBC News.

The concerns are obvious, but sitting in his office at the institute in Mountain View, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley he expresses them with characteristic, impish glee.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31442952


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Any society that could come here and ruin our whole day by incinerating the planet already knows we are here"
Dr Seth Shostak
Seti Institute

And by extension they've seen what were like over history* and currently don't want anything to do with us?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

The Brain

#1
February 12, 2015, 04:30:14 PM
We shoud obviously try to fly under the radar. Actively announcing our presence is retarded, but that's morans for you.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Caliga

#2
February 12, 2015, 04:35:21 PM
"Don't bother."
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MadImmortalMan

#3
February 12, 2015, 04:35:42 PM
"Contact with us is more trouble than it's worth."
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Valmy

#4
February 12, 2015, 04:43:40 PM
"Resistance is futile.  Submit or be destroyed."

See if they call our bluff.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Richard Hakluyt

#5
February 12, 2015, 04:45:29 PM
Our words are backed by nuclear weapons.

Syt

#6
February 12, 2015, 04:46:31 PM
"Take Tim!"
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

citizen k

#7
February 12, 2015, 04:50:33 PM
"Drink your Ovaltine."

Admiral Yi

#8
February 12, 2015, 04:52:12 PM
"How are the reproductive organs of your females shaped?"

MadImmortalMan

#9
February 12, 2015, 04:54:14 PM
I changed my mind. I like Valmy's idea better.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Malthus

#10
February 12, 2015, 04:56:40 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 12, 2015, 04:52:12 PM
"How are the reproductive organs of your females shaped?"

More like "if you do the whole anal probing thing, in the future, please consider a reach-around".  :P
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Eddie Teach

#11
February 12, 2015, 05:01:46 PM
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

lustindarkness

#12
February 12, 2015, 05:07:26 PM
"languish.org"
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

CountDeMoney

#13
February 12, 2015, 05:09:26 PM
"NOT A UNION SHOP"

Darth Wagtaros

#14
February 12, 2015, 05:41:42 PM
Fuck off and implant your facehuggers elsewhere.
PDH!
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