S.C. Stuart, PC Mag: Here's Why Aliens Will Probably Come in Peace
Ahead of World Space Week, we talk to SETI Institute chief Bill Diamond about the search for extraterrestrial life and why the idea of aliens coming to Earth to destroy us is 'absurd.'
Humans have been looking to the stars for millennia wondering if we're the only intelligent beings in the universe. Statistically, it's highly illogical (as Spock would say) we're alone. Stretching out from this planet of 7 billion people there are 46 billion light years between us and the edge of the knowable universe. There must be someone or something.
Sometimes it's best not to dwell on this, unless you enjoy having an existential crisis. Leave that to the SETI Institute and those like Dr. Frank Drake, who in 1961 developed the Drake Equation, which seeks to calculate the number of detectable civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy.
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WNU Editor: Will man welcome them in peace?
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Well, the question would be reverse. When you look at the "universal" evolution, there is something very disturbing but not very advertised: the human evolution take a "Huge, huge" up, "all the sudden". The actually humans could be DNA "augmented" from the passage of ET which need good labor better than robot because they are able to reproduce themselves. I know I will be very controversial, but, so what?
@Jac,
From everything we know about space we can be very confident that in order for any ET to find us, let alone travel to us, would involve both incredibly advanced technology in terms of spacecraft, communications, computing etc., but also in terms of resource management/control. Being able to both find humans and then design and power crafts which can travel the kinds of distances involved requires such advanced science and technology that by the time they get here we couldn't possibly have anything to offer.
The idea that humans could be augmented isn't wrong, but the idea that an ET with the ability to get all the way to us and make it happen suggests an ET that would be able to build an AI/cyborg/synthetic etc far more useful than us or even to make their own organic 'labor force' from scratch wherever they already are. It would take fewer resources and effort to build a giant space habitat and just grow your own 'human whatevers' on it than to simply travel to earth and mess around with us.
Long story short, they would almost certainly come in peace because in order to come at all they would have to have achieved effectively limitless resource utilization and ridiculous technology that would make us nothing worthy of aggression or malice (unless they are sadists!), though I don't think an ET with that kind of disposition would have made it to become such an advanced civilization of their own...
We better hope so, if they can get here it means they are much more technologically advanced than we are.
It really doesn't matter how we welcome them.Their tech would be so advanced compared to ours they could probably disable all our offensive systems just by thinking it.Their ships could easily spot even the most advanced and quiet sub on the planet and send some kind of EMP and take it out if need be.And if a human tried to attack them they could probably stun him on the spot using whatever Star Trek phasers on stun setting they have.In practical terms we would have close to nothing to offer them though so their interests might be purely scientific.Even if they sort of come in peace that doesn't exclude them taking humans for whatever Zoo they might have.You could almost see a human in an alien Zoo 'And this specimen was what is called a scriptwriter.He used to write stories about extraplanetary nvaders.Weirdly their species seemed to assume that if advanced species from other planets ever came they could defeat them.Our experts are still not sure why they assumed that.'
From many of the comments that get posted at this site it seems aliens who are not friendly nor kind nor polite nor loveable have embedded themselves among us some time ago and have fun sneering at humans and showing contempt for those not of their tribe
The people of Earth can right now detect planets a few times more massive than earth around nearby stars, say out to 10 light years. In a few more years the detection threshold will be earth size and spectroscopic analysis of the atmospheres in a search for telltale signs of advanced life.
So kick forward in time to a future alien encounter. They will have studied earth from afar, many light years afar and know quite a bit about earth and its biology. At that point its a take it or leave proposition for them.
My thought is that advanced races would have the technology to ‘consciousness travel unlimited distances’, causing their physical bodies to de materialize in order to travel and to reformulate at the intended destination. Travel in physical dimension is illogical for such distances by the known laws of physics. But I have no doubt that other beings exist. We are stardust!
Not if we have a Russiam sam system.
And some epic A-10s and Michael Bay style explosions and Hans Zimmer sound track! F yeah!
Maybe the alien ships can land on the sun.If I was an alien invader I would look for a planet that did not possess thermonuclear weapons. ;)
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