Should Humans Try to Contact Alien Civilizations?
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Published 2017-03-22
Doug Vakoch is a former SETI member who founded METI International in 2015, an organization trying to craft and send targeted interstellar messages to extraterrestrials. However, his work has become the center of an international debate on whether humans should try to actively contact other lifeforms without global consensus.
In the third episode of Exo, Motherboard goes to San Francisco to meet with Doug, and to hear from those who think his project is dangerous.
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All Comments (21)
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I'm of the opinion that if they're really a major threat, they're advanced enough to detect us already.
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"new planet who dis?"
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If they're anything like us, definitely not.
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Want to live long enough to experience an integrated universe. Beautiful.
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UN decides to reply with "New Phone, who dis?"
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Pretty sure aliens don't care to make proper contact with our barbaric human species
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Imagine if the ants in your garden managed to contact you. "Hey, we're actually highly intelligent. We've developed ways to leave this garden and also we have the ability to create and build highly destructive weapons" What would you do?
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Its not wise to be shining lights out into the dark forest .
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Our messages would be left on seen
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They've already been contacting us for thousands and thousands of years. Nothing to be afraid of.
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They've seen our teeveeee signals and have concluded there is no intelligence on earth
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PLEASE READ: The Three Body Problem
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We are some of the smallest species in the universe, just like ants. To anybody else... Food.
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They can see our old TV shows? Why can't I get TV stations that are more than 50 miles away with an antenna designed to pick up the broadcast frequency, aimed directly at the station?
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Absolutely irresponsible to directly broadcast a signal to places we think have life.
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Aliens be like: "Yeah we know you exist, you just weren't any interesting to us"
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So did they make those signals?.
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What is the ultimate goal after contact? Pat ourselves on the back and call it a day? Do we develop a way to travel and meet for interstellar coffee? What's the goal?
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And this is how Promethus begins
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Excellent
