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Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?
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| 6/27/12
| George Dvorsky
Posted on 07/11/2012 2:09:03 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
If humanity is gullible enough to accept the likes of Obama and Stalin and Lenin and Hitler and Ahmadinejad and Castro and Mao and Chavez, as leaders, then, we are gullible enough to accept viruses from alien civilizations that could destroy us. More proof of that, is the fact that, billions of people are willing to accept the lies of the global warming hoaxers, and would vote to re-elect Obama.
Plus, there will always be those who will feel the need to "explore" the alien signals, even as they knew that, there is a danger involved in doing so.
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posted on
07/11/2012 3:17:52 PM PDT
by
adorno
To: LibWhacker
This alien has asked to look at my hard drive. I will get back to you . . .
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posted on
07/11/2012 3:21:47 PM PDT
by
freedomlover
(Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
To: LibWhacker
First find simple bacteria on Mars and then we can worry about these supposed super aliens.
To: LibWhacker
Y'all are aware that there is a group of people-- though I don't know how large (unless you count scientologists) who think aliens are already among us, and controlling us... and that only those "in the know" (like our power leaders) really know what's up.
This is an explanation of the bizarre "one world order" worldism of GHW Bush, Clintoonians, GW, and bamalamadingdong. It's all "part of the plan". That and legalizing loco weed to better "convey" the proles to their proper place. Hey, it worked for the Incan ruling class with mama coca!! This has been around since the TV show "The Invaders"... don't forget to look at the little finger!
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posted on
07/11/2012 3:27:53 PM PDT
by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: LibWhacker
without knowing the architecture of earthly electronics and the computer code running them, i fail to see how they could do much harm...
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posted on
07/11/2012 3:28:37 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: LibWhacker
Wouldn’t be funny if aliens were from an OSX world. And they all revered Windows. Yeah...that would be funny.
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posted on
07/11/2012 3:31:05 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(I just hate our government. All of them. Republican and Democrat.)
To: LibWhacker
"Carl Sagan always held firmly to his belief in benign aliens. He was convinced that any advanced civilization had to be friendly by default that overly aggressive or misguided aliens would have destroyed themselves prior to advancing to such a stage. His theory suggested that an interstellar selectional effect was happening, and the only advanced aliens left standing would be the good ones. "
Sagan, like all liberals, understood nothing about human nature, or about nature in general. Anyone who did could never make the claim he made. There is nothing in nature or in man's history to indicate that advanced civilizations do anything other than despoil inferior cultures and supplant them with their own--mostly in the name of conquest.
Siemion and Cirkovic seem on a more likely track. My personal beliefs run along the line of Edward Harrison's solution to the Fermi Paradox.
The Fermi Paradox states:
The apparent size and age of the universe suggest that many technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations ought to exist. However, this hypothesis seems inconsistent with the lack of observational evidence to support it.
Harrison's solution?
An intelligent species beyond a certain point of technological capability will destroy other intelligence as it appears, as is exemplified by the theorised extermination of Neanderthals by early man. Such behavior would be an act of prudence: an intelligent species that has overcome its own self-destructive tendencies might view any other species bent on galactic expansion as a kind of virus.
We should keep our heads down. :)
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posted on
07/11/2012 3:32:01 PM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Member of the BBB Club - Bye-Bye-Barry!!! President Barack "Down Low" Obama)
To: LibWhacker
Just to be on the safe side... I’m playing ALL of my Slim Whitman albums... right now!!
And replaying Charlie Sheen in “The Arrival”, where I always wanted someone to spray the “grasshopper men” aliens with
bug spray— and have one say “This stuff just killlls me!!”
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posted on
07/11/2012 3:32:30 PM PDT
by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: Charles Martel
Splendid! Let’s do what we can to bring this poor man home. First - open airlock and start walking...
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posted on
07/11/2012 3:33:24 PM PDT
by
Noumenon
(I will not pay the Obama jizya.)
To: ari-freedom
Yeah! I know that they are discovering planets at a furious clip these days, but we’re also learning the limits of habitability, not only on a solar system but also galactic scale. Too much radiation in the inner galactic regions.
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posted on
07/11/2012 3:33:24 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
(It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
To: adorno
So, in that regard... assuming these greater intelligence aliens have studied us and this predilection for stupidity and self destruction, perhaps they just "check in" every now and then to see if we've done ourselves in.
I tend to like "The Day the Earth Stood Still" , only in the abstract though, because Sagan-like, they assume that Klaatu's species is benign, though powerful. Sort of like world socialism, benign and overwhelming.
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posted on
07/11/2012 3:44:19 PM PDT
by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: John S Mosby
So, in that regard... assuming these greater intelligence aliens have studied us and this predilection for stupidity and self destruction, perhaps they just "check in" every now and then to see if we've done ourselves in.
You're not far from the truth.
The truth is that, humanity has not really advanced. Oh, yeah, we have advanced technologically, and knowledge-wise, but, we haven't advanced socially or governmentally or economically. We continue repeating the same mistakes of the past, which prevents us from moving forward and making the world a better place in which to live, socially and economically. Technology only allows us to destroy ourselves a lot faster, while we continue to pretend that, we are "progressing".
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posted on
07/11/2012 3:50:35 PM PDT
by
adorno
To: LibWhacker
Of course not! We’re not even getting pop-up advertising...
To: Charles Martel
Ha ha, sorry suckers, but I already assisted this man am currently waiting for the transfer.
However, I may need to borrow a few dollars to pay for internet since their was a banking glitch and the bank accidentally sent ALL of my money to Dr Tunde after I transferred the $3K. But don't worry, he seems legit and promised to return it.
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posted on
07/11/2012 4:37:05 PM PDT
by
Repeat Offender
(Why do cops have more lenient ROEs when facing us than troops in combat facing suicidal islamists?)
To: dead
Yes, seems far-fetched, doesn’t it? I mean, if they are a billion years ahead of us technologically, they ought to be able to download their viruses directly to those wrinkly computers between our ears. Why bother with, what to them, must be primitive silicon-based technology?
It always gets me when people talk seriously about that ridiculous claim that a 100 billion years from now advanced “people” will be able to build a computer as large as the universe itself, using all the matter and energy in the univere, and resurrect everything that ever lived with it. Now, I do not know what the future will bring, but I can pretty much guarantee that the most awesome or wonderful or frightening or useful technology around in those far-distant days isn’t going to have anything to do with something primitive man (and that’s how we’ll be viewed) invented in 1950.
To: Sudetenland
Sagan was a dreamer, we need dreamers, but we don’t need everyone making policy to be dreamers, we need realists too.
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posted on
07/11/2012 5:13:18 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: LibWhacker
We use CISC chips, we are safe for now cause no sane species would use cisc chips.
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posted on
07/11/2012 5:14:49 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: omega4179
The. Best solution if we find signals from apparently hostile aliens would be turn earth into “foretress earth” which would involve moving all life on earth underground while nuking the surface repeatedly and sending out fake news signals documenting a “world wide themonuclear war” then sucking all the air off the surface and leaving earth to be a “lifeless” rock and hoping the mothership finds mars a nicer place to pillage....
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posted on
07/11/2012 5:19:53 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: GraceG
I hear IED’s work nicely.
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posted on
07/11/2012 5:36:44 PM PDT
by
omega4179
( el 0bama comio un perro)
To: LibWhacker
“I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
- Babbage (1864, father of computing)
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posted on
07/11/2012 5:41:25 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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