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I agree with you. Very few people have thought through what would happen if SETI found a clear signal. Say intelligence is only 20 light years away from us an
by blake8086 15y ago
I agree with you. Very few people have thought through what would happen if SETI found a clear signal. Say intelligence is only 20 light years away from us and they say "Hi! Here we are!"
What possible step could we take? They are soo far away.
- gjm11 15y agoWe could talk to them. We could listen to them. Chances are at least one side would have something useful to learn from the other. (Think about how much we know that we didn't 100 years ago. Unless this hypothetical other intelligent civilization, having developed independently of ours, happens to be within 100 years of progress of us in every respect, someone's going to learn something.)
- Bud 15y agoYou're forgetting about the existence of Republicans. Clearly, what we'd do is immediately fund a massive space army to go and attack the aliens.