Aye, they Arecibo’d the message at the three nearest systems to the projected message origin, ten thousand tweets with the hashtag #ChasingUFOs and some video messages from “various celebrities”A reply was sent in 2012 IIRC.
So if Hawking was right and it's a very bad idea to do that we've got 86 years before they get our reply and set off to annihilate us.
The reply was compiled from tweets submitted by the public to the national geographic channel, so they'll probably conclude we need to be eradicated even if they are peaceful and enlightened.
Aye, they Arecibo’d the message at the three nearest systems to the projected message origin, ten thousand tweets with the hashtag #ChasingUFOs and some video messages from “various celebrities”
Whilst the worst case scenario is indeed sapient sterilisation of Earth, I’m hoping we just get another “WOW!” signal, finally decoded after many years of hard study by the finest minds:
“LOL! #dontthinkwewillbother”
Wasn't there a group of scientists/Sci fi writers that warned the top brass about all this in the 60s?It's like the opening scene of a really cheap sci-fi channel movie. The fact we did it in real life makes me embarrassed to be human.
Nobody at the galactic federation will object if the Vogons decide to build a hyperspace bypass through our system.
Wasn't there a group of scientists/Sci fi writers that warned the top brass about all this in the 60s?
Memory fails me.
(Booming voice from massive UFO floating above Washington DC)It's like the opening scene of a really cheap sci-fi channel movie...
(Booming voice from massive UFO floating above Washington DC)
“Morons of the Earth: we demand you release the higher beings who sent us the Golden Records upon the Voyager probes - or we will unleash the Disintegronulator!”
Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek: The Voyage Home. Idea already taken, sorry!
In general, that's the truth everywhere on Earth.humans are the bad guys
You'r assuming that the "aliens" got it right the first time. Like they didn't make mistakes. Like humans are the only species in the galaxy that were ever racist or violent or destroyed their enviroment.In general, that's the truth everywhere on Earth.
It's not all completely black and white though, there may be some rare exceptions to that rule around, at least to a degree.
Haven't said anything to imply that.You'r assuming that the "aliens" got it right the first time.
Oh right I forgot the narrative, humans are the bad guys......
It's quite easy to paint humans as the stuff of alien horror stories, we breathe toxic gases (O2 could potentially be toxic to some life forms), we are mostly made up a polar solvent (water), we can be quite relentless (for example persistence hunting), we can survive serious injury and still keep going. I could go on, but you get the idea. Humans are potentially very scary.Oh right I forgot the narrative, humans are the bad guys......
It's quite easy to paint humans as the stuff of alien horror stories
I’m hoping we just get another “WOW!” signal, finally decoded after many years of hard study by the finest minds:
Press 1: To leave a review.Hello,
I recently wrote a paper (which I present here) suggesting which star has the highest probability of being the source of the WOW! Signal.
Do you think that we should reply to the WOW! Signal or not?