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SETI seems hell bent on finding intelligent alien life, wants to send Wikipedia to outer space

In an attempt of maximizing our chances for contacting alien life, SETI is planning to send messages about Earth and humanity to outer space.

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ArchangelMike3356d ago

Massive assumption that any alien life out there will be able to read and speak english. Since when has contact ever been made with another civilisation only to be blown away by the fact that the new civilisation already speaks the language?! It has Never happened in the history of existence!

The other massive assumption is that alien life exists in 'this' dimension. You might have to send that wiki file into the next dimension for it to even be registerd on their plane of existence!

Minimoth3356d ago

I think SETI assumes that the aliens might be able to translate our messages into their own language or whatever form of communications they might use. As for your second point, I would say it's pretty valid, but unfortunately not being taken into consideration by a lot of people.

amiga-man3355d ago (Edited 3355d ago )

Is it really that big an assumption to feel aliens might actually exist in our universe?

There are trillions upon trillions of galaxies and in each of those galaxies billions of stars and planets, the probability is that intelligent life has formed elsewhere, It is only the vastness of space that stops us confirming it.

DivineHand1253356d ago

That sounds like a very bad idea. Doing so would give them an advantage over us with them knowing almost everything about us and leave us knowing nothing about them. Also I'm not entirely sure how the SETI satellites work but how can they assume they will find intelligent life by listening to space. The only way that would be possible is if that civilization was billions of years old which is very unlikely or if they are very close which would be difficult to tell since we wouldn't know if it's our own signal we are detecting.

ArchangelMike3356d ago

Agreed. I've never understood why we keep sending out personal 'earth' information out into space. As a comparison, imagine sending all you personal information out over "cyber-space" just becasue you wanted any random person 'out there' to contact you. You just wouldn't do it, regardless of how "good" and "non-hostile" you imagine people on cyberspace to be!

ajax173356d ago

I'm sure any super advanced alien race that is aware of our existence is only interested in studying us (for the time being at least). I do not believe in hostile aliens. That notion is just us projecting our own fears onto them. Any species so advanced as to construct intergalactic space travel has most likely outgrown being a hostile race.

Stringerbell3356d ago

Yes perhaps a civilization that masters intergalactic travel is noble and like in countless sci fi scenarios they will be nice and share their ways advancing humanity ten fold.

But the idea of a civilization forced to flee their planet due to some sort of disaster and looking for a new home to either cohabitate or outright steal isn't so far fetched.

ArchangelMike3356d ago

The problem is that WE are the hostile race. Any advanced race that studies us for even a moment, will come to the horrible realisation that not only can WE as a race not be trusted, but we have such a penchant for war and hostility, that it makes 'first contact' an inevitable prelude to intergalactic war.

SilentNegotiator3356d ago (Edited 3356d ago )

That's a completely foolish assumption made popular by sci fi movies. There's zero reason to believe that having advanced technology means that a society won't be hostile.

Look at all of the technology invented during the second world war; that was created out of necessity from a conflict/hostility.

bahadur3356d ago

Along with the wikipedia, SETI should also send a book explaining to aliens how to read English. That being said, do they even have anything that'd teach some alien English? An alien who is literally an alien to our culture, words, voice and other most basic stuff. Way to go, SETI! Way to go.

Inzo3355d ago

So if we ever discover other life out there and they look more or less like us, what does that say about evolution?

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