I think that since the laws of nature are eat or be eaten, it is a horrible idea to just put up a big billboard with an "all you can eat special" in big fat red letters and a picture of a juicy T-Bone on the side. I'm sure most intelligent species are not hostile but what about those that are? What happens if this causes us to get invaded? They aren't thinking!!!

Quote from the link you provided:

It is naive to assume there is no evil in the universe.

IMO, it is dumb to assume that our concept of good and evil is UNIVERSAL.

I believe, lol, that whoever is able to manage to come to Earth in interstellar spaceship is not only more technologically developed then we are, but also has more advanced society which is capable of recognizing and respecting life beyond their own world

I am in favor of the Earth Interstellar Beacon

Being Sci-Fi author does not make David Brin authority on this issue more then anybody else

Just studying human behavior and what happens when a more advanced culture meets a more primitive one, it almost universally end up bad. How can these people even begin to assume, that they can even begin to understand a creature they have never observed or imagined will behave??

Originally posted by DaMod
I think that since the laws of nature are eat or be eaten, it is a horrible idea to just put up a big billboard with an "all you can eat special" in big fat red letters and a picture of a juicy T-Bone on the side.

Then we become the "eatees"...get it? (ET's)?

:LOL: Ah Phage you never cease to amaze me. ETs lol Classic.

I find it very difficult to believ any Alien race would have any interest in us other than a purely academic one.

By the time they can easily reach us (using advanced propulsion) they will almost certainly have mastered the ability to convert matter to energy and vice versa.

Since we know planets with great bodies of water are not rare in our own galaxy - there is really no reason to believe they would come here to exploit our planet or people for resources.

That being said - there is always the smallest chance they would choose to absorb or destroy us as standard operating proceedure - but due to our current leakage of electromagnetic spectrum - it's not like we are really protected from discovery anyway.

However - the amount of evidence is certainly building - that we are currently being observed already - so it's probably a waste of resources to pursue this.

(unlike normal seti - which may still luck out in picking up signals from less technically advanced worlds - or even close by alien vehicles)

This makes me wonder about how precious Earth would be to a more advanced civilization. True, there may be some who wish to preserve it in its current state but inevitably, there will be others that seek to exploit it's resources for their own use.

I have to agree with Carl Sagan on this one; we should stick to listening-- don't speak unless spoken to first. While there is an expanding sphere of radio transmissions emanating from this planet, I don't see the point in "amping them up".

I'd like to see definitive proof of alien intelligence out there in the cosmos as much as anyone but not at the expense of our own survival. I'd much rather wait for peaceful contact than rush to hasten the death of our world at the hands of a technologically superior civilization.

ultimatly good cooperative civiliations will be the only thing that survive... in a universe that is old or nearly infinite that would be a point along technological development that would cause self distruction. The good will always be in the vast majority of the technological races. We have nothing to worry about.

The vermin on this planet who hope that their actions will never be seen will speak out from a fear of being brought to justice.

what if we encounter life forms that are adversely affected by our transmisisons? Say there sanity is affected or something like that, similar maybe to haarp and its alledged side effects.

I can just imagine spotty alien teenagers getting the low down on the history of earth and mankind for their school class trip sometime soon.Anyway i used to run SETI on my computer..but then i started to think it was just a honeytrap and was never going to lead anywhere...

Not an idea I agree with at all.

There is nothing to indicate that anything we would encounter would be either a good thing or a bad thing.

Potentially ringing the dinner bell seems a bit premature.

Originally posted by Head Shelton
Excerpt from an Interview with Henry Deacon:
"OK. This may interest you if you have a physics background. You know what signal non-locality is, right?

That's actually called Quantum Entanglement.

I agree that they would use communications that we may not be able to intercept. Which might be good for us since they might not intercept our communications because they no longer have the equipment for it being long obsolete. I still think this whole thing is a bad idea.

I had a thought, you know how we are trying to expose the NWO?

Have you guys ever thought there might be a NGO?

[edit on 7-4-2009 by DaMod]

recources are infinite.... energy is infinite.... space is infinite. No one wants you damn gold... THE ONLY THING YOU NEED TO DO IS GROW UP!

When there's a fly buzzing around in the room my first response is not to try and exchange technology with it.


Mike

Phage

"If" they are out there and intercept our signals and "if" they are more advanced than us then it stands to reason they would be of a higher understanding of the situation than ourselves.


Having said that...

Whose to say that they do not already know we are here. I believe they already know we are here and have been here in our past and present.

The possibility of "Bad" aliens is a very real issue. The mathematical possibility of such alien races cannot be over looked. Whose to say that the vast majority of the "Good" aliens have not already stepped in on our behave which they may have been here in our past and may be the roots to most of the worlds religions and those ancient witnesses wrote down the battles of good vs evil etc.

makes one wonder aye?