3 ms·
Seems like using a flag that gives an unknown contact your home address is a bad idea. That information might not be something we want to communicate right off
by jarito 11y ago
Seems like using a flag that gives an unknown contact your home address is a bad idea. That information might not be something we want to communicate right off the bat.
- jarboot 11y agoCompletely agree. Reminds me of Liu Cixin's Three Body Problem novels :)
- ajmurmann 11y agoI just read that and the Dark Forrest and that (fundamental) part of the book honestly made no sense to me. His claim that you can't locate a signal's source location was in complete conflict with everything I thought I knew about astronomy and how we locate things in space.
- dakridge 11y agoYou might want to send your concerns to SETI
- vidarh 11y agoOne suggested solution to the Fermi paradox is that any civilization that gets noisy enough to get noticed quickly gets attacked and destroyed (or taught to hide better in the future...)
- iSnow 11y agoSince we are constantly broadcasting at high energy and with interesting patterns, I wouldn't worry about that. Everyone who sees this flag is either from Earth or knows its position very well.
- unethical_ban 11y agoIf an alien civ discovered that flag somehow, we've probably tipped our hand.
- dingaling 11y agoToo late, we've already sent self-addressed envelopes out into the Cosmos. http://www.exploringbinary.com/binary-code-on-the-pioneer-10-spacecraft/ http://www.exploringbinary.com/binary-code-on-the-pioneer-10...