Posted on 05/21/2020 4:46:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
Researchers using China’s new Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), the largest single-dish scope in the world, are piecing together a technological strategy to carry out a major and sweeping search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). What if China someday announces that this hunt has been successful? How would such a claim be verified, and what might the consequences be? And could an unofficial international SETI race already be underway? Space.com asked several SETI authorities to flesh out the implications of China being the first nation to get a ping from ET.
And then the interstellar travelers will lookupon Earths political party system and then...will leave.
If ET is close enough to respond in our lifetimes then they already know we’re here.
That is the true purpose of the 5G network.
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Why bother. If there were really aliens why have we never seen any indication of them except for 1950s flying saucer movies.
Why would they? It seems to me analogous to us talking to a colony of ants.
There’s nobody out there
ETs are maintaining social distance and won’t come closer than 6 lightyears (and that’s a measure of distance, for those in Rio Linda)
One has to have incredible hubris to imagine that some advanced alien species still uses the electromagnetic spectrum to communicate. Looking in all the wrong places with the wrong tools.
See James Clerk Maxwell’s 200 field equations, the mathematician that made both Tesla and Einstein the men they became.
I think E.T. used to exist, but they had dirt on Hillary.
If so then why are they working on 6G network?
Yeah, ahem... America had the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world FOR OVER 50 YEARS. That didn't work out too well in the ET searching game. Now China is going to repeat that rather embarrassing long-standing failed strategy.
Einstein had a word for that: Insanity.
Even if the Chinese contact aliens first, we know they don’t speak Chinee. Every space movie since 1950 shows that aliens would speak Amurican.
or they are hiding - see the Dark Forest theory - an answer the Fermi’s Paradox
Isn’t that Barbara Rush.
You mean he did, don’t you?
I don’t believe in them either.
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