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That would be rather defeating their purpose. We put golden records on the Voyager probes, which included instructions for reading them, so that should another
by snuxoll 3y ago
That would be rather defeating their purpose. We put golden records on the Voyager probes, which included instructions for reading them, so that should another intelligent civilization be in their flight path they can learn of our existence and some of our culture.
- renewiltord 3y agoA time when we were too young to conceive of the Dark Forest.
- giantrobot 3y agoIf aliens are sending a battle fleet to destroy Earth because there's life here, they were on the way long before we emitted and radio waves. Earth has been broadcasting the existence of life for a billion years.
- renewiltord 3y agoI knew there was a reason to hate cyanobacteria. Those fuckers gave it away with the O2 in the first place.
- eichin 3y agoAlternatively, preserve the mission and build a museum in-place around it :-)
- WalterBright 3y agoWe must not allow humans to jeopardize the mission.
- lmm 3y agoThat was hardly their primary purpose, and presumably long before we were in a position to retrieve the Voyagers we would have sent faster probes that would have already overtaken them.