Is it wise to be sending messages to E.T and what would E.T. contact mean?
E.T. Contact!….Friend or Foe?
Its not the first time its been done by far, but with new technology coming available we can send them farther and faster than ever before.
The cover of the phonograph record on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, which contains an interstellar message encoded on a phonographic record.
Many have expressed concern about how SETI will reveal the Earth’s location and expose our planet to other civilizations but a chief scientists at the SETI Institute in California said that these radio messages to aliens will not result in an alien invasion.
Recently, a statement posted online (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/meti_statement_0.html) asserted that messaging extraterrestrial intelligence (METI) carries “unknown and potentially enormous implications and consequences.” Signed by a number of well-known scientists – and people such as Elon Musk – the missive asks that a vigorous international debate take place before any new messages are sent.
Astronomers have been picking up radio waves from outer space and analyzed then since 1960, but nothing tangible ever came out of that. This new plan to send radio messages intends to switch things up and make us more available.
Director of the Interstellar Message Composition program, Doctor Douglas A. Vakoch, stated he thinks that any civilization who can travel through space can already pick us Earth’s TV and radio signals. These signals have been leaking into space ever since man created them, so Active SETI doesn’t pose any additional risk.
But what if we make contact?
The plan is to follow the The Post-Detection SETI Protocol.
See Here: http://www.coseti.org/setiprot.htm
The next question is will they be Friendly and assist in Mankind’s evolution and understanding of the universe?,..or are they a enemy we just announced our location to? Lets take a look at both possibilities.
ALIEN INVASION
No one knows how it would happen, but leading scientists believe that some day we will make contact with extra-terrestrial intelligence. And if the aliens make it to Earth, they may not come in peace. In the event of a hostile alien visitation, here’s how it might play out…
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF…?
Sometime in the future – possibly the very near future – the world will go about its business as usual. But at a remote observatory, a space anomaly is reported. Something unusual – and large – appears to be approaching Earth. Experts aren’t sure how to react. The first sighting alerts sky-watchers around the world…
8 HOURS BEFORE CONTACT
Astronomers scramble to analyze an object only 8,000 kilometers from Earth – closer than our moon. It has crept into earth’s orbit with no warning.
The next group to take an interest in the anomaly is military.
US Space Command uses global satellite tracking systems, telescopes and radar to search for any type of airborne or space threat. The object is not natural.
TWO HOURS BEFORE CONTACT
At US Space Command, astronomers don’t know if the anomaly is an actual vehicle. Then comes confirmation; in a solar system where every object is constantly in motion, the unknown object stops. Space Command officials agree that it must be powered.
The next step is to establish contact. The UN Office of Outer Space Affairs committee quickly crafts a simple message, transmitted to the spacecraft over television and radio signal. The message is transmitted simultaneously in the most widely spoken languages of the world: Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, English, Arabic and Hindi.
Astronomers see no response to Earth’s communication. Space Command attempts contact using the universal language of mathematics in a sequence of prime numbers.
CONTACT
As the craft approaches Earth, screens go blank, data streams cut out, and communications suddenly cease. Cell phone calls are dropped and TV images go out. All of Earth’s satellites fail, but optical and radio telescopes are still receiving information. The aliens have knocked out satellite communication.
THREE HOURS AFTER CONTACT
Military’s prepare for the worst. Squadrons of F-18s – possibly our planet’s most effective and versatile air-to-air weapon – scramble into action. But, for alien crafts to travel through the stars, they have propulsion technologies beyond physics that we even understand and can evade F-18 missiles fired at twice the speed of sound.
Military’s try to intercept and decode alien communication. Humvees with broadcast dishes target alien crafts with microwaves to jam signals, cyber-attacking invaders.
On the ground, a desperate military unleashes experimental weapons like the U.S. Air Force’s highly classified X-37B spacefighter. But experimental weapons are no match.
FIVE HOURS AFTER CONTACT
While nations of the world combine forces, the alien air force clears the skies then blasts military targets around the world, following our own radar signals before moving on to attack the infrastructure of our society, leaving one last hope: nuclear weapons.
Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, a submarine releases a Trident II ballistic missile, carrying nearly 3.5 megatonnes of destructive power. The missile breaks apart into eight self-guided warheads. But, Earth’s mightiest weapon has no impact.
From shielded bunkers and secret locations, surviving military leaders issue orders for a surprising new tactic. Instead of attack, they order their forces to run away.
24 HOURS AFTER CONTACT
The alien invasion is complete. The invaders control the skies and ground. Earth’s remaining communications hubs call for civilian evacuation. In the panic to flee, desperate crowds become rioting mobs.
Roadways grind to a halt. A successful getaway demands some other form of transportation. For some, safety from aliens and rampaging humans means going underground. Subway tunnels and sewers provide safe exits from burning cities.
According to the experts, the destruction of civilization is predictable. And, it is accounted for in the plans to fight an alien invasion. But, while military defeat may be predictable, it’s not the end of the war. Among the survivors of Earth – in caves, and forests and deserts – there grows the seeds of rebellion.
FIVE DAYS TO SIX WEEKS AFTER CONTACT
With cities destroyed, remnants of humanity are on the run. Urban chaos and failed evacuations kill thousands in the first day. Scavenged supplies, canned food and clean water along with flashlights, batteries and knives become vital. But, the real key to long-term survival is other people.
Surviving groups carry the last remnants of human technology, connecting with simple devices: walkie-talkies, recovered ham radios, and old telegraph lines.
SIX TO SEVEN MONTHS AFTER CONTACT
Survivors must fight aliens with low tech guerrilla tactics and small-scale explosives. The alien forces have ventured too far from home to rely on reinforcements, meaning every lost unit won’t be replaced – a critical weakness.
With bacteria and disease rampant among survivors deprived of antibiotics and other medicine, humans are provided with another weapon. Living germ warfare units prepare to be harvested – to spread their deadly agent among the invaders.
Now imagine 20 years after the Invasion whats left of the Human Race?
Lisa Kretz who is the Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a Social Responsibility Fellow at the University of Evansville, Indiana has a great article with a possible scenario:
The Allegory of the Alien Invasion
The first ships landed twenty years ago. The aliens have been increasing their presence exponentially since then. What we call the A.E. (Alien Era) is marked by alien dominance both in terms of the power they exert over us and in their numbers. They now number over ten billion – a population even larger than humanity, hitherto the dominant species.
There are hardly any free humans anymore. You see, these aliens like the taste of our flesh disproportionately more than that of other animals on our planet, so they pen us up and are selecting the most docile and muscular of us to breed. Women are kept pregnant so that they can be milked. Not only do the aliens like human milk, but when they saw what we did with veal calves, they adopted the same behavior, keeping children confined and anemic so that their flesh would become pale and tender.
The aliens are like us in many regards. Physiologically they appear almost mammalian in some senses: they have two eyes, dark fur, a vertebrate structure, and they bleed (blue). They also seem to respond to pain in ways similar to us, giving evidence such as grimacing, screaming – what an awful noise that is – and avoiding the source of pain. They have a language we have not been able to decipher, and sometimes their interactions make it evident that they have telepathic capacities. They have a body language similar to ours, but they refuse to recognize this similarity, and they fail to understand all our attempts at communication. In fact they give no consideration to our social relations, our family times, our romantic desires… we are here to serve their needs. They’ve penned us up in such a way that we can’t even take our own lives to end the pain.
There are also human game reserves where the aliens like to let groups of people roam ‘wild’ within large ‘natural landscapes’ lined by electrified fences. Here we breed and form family units, and they come and pick us off with their lasers during hunting season to ensure we don’t over consume resources. It’s taken to be a demonstration of their prowess to be able to shoot, gut and stuff a human. Since the most impressive specimens are the strongest, the fastest and the smartest – the leaders – those are the ones the alien hunters tend to kill and mount for show. As a result, natural selection is no longer helping our ability to survive in the long term. The fact that the aliens think these bigger pens facilitate our natural species growth is ludicrous.
We know that some of the aliens live off vegetables alone. The aliens are omnivores, and some of them choose not to eat humans. We aren’t sure precisely why. It seems that some of them are partial to treating domesticated humans – that is, the aliens’ pets – well, and so a number of them just refuse to eat humans. Some domesticated humans report having gone with their owners to rallies of angry aliens marching the streets with pictures of factory-farmed humans on placards. Some of the aliens even cry purple alien tears when they look at the pictures. They hold their domestic humans close to their huge alien bodies with their alien arms.
We know they think they’re better than us because they have that telepathic language going for them, and so they find us comparatively mentally slow and brutish. So I’m guessing they generally take the evidence they found of human treatment of ‘lesser species’ as a justification for doing the same sort of thing to us; in fact, it seems they’ve adapted a lot of our technologies used for slaughtering and imprisoning non-human animals to the slaughtering and imprisoning of humans. What I wish is that they all could see it from our perspective, just for a moment. They don’t need to eat us, and if they were in our shoes – if a more dominant, larger population of different aliens touched down on Earth who liked the taste of their flesh, their pregnant females’ milk, their fetuses, and their babies – they’d also wish that dominant species would act with care, not cruelty. Just because we don’t have the capacity to speak their language, and aren’t as intelligent and powerful as they are, doesn’t mean that it’s right for them to do whatever they want with us. It seems one thing humans have that they don’t have is an understanding and valuing of moral behavior. But, I guess, truth be told, when we were dominant, we didn’t have that either.
Source:
https://philosophynow.org/issues/106/The_Allegory_of_the_Alien_Invasion
Yes, this is just one theory or scenario. Military’s in every country run exercises and have multiple contingency plans for every possible scenario for invasions and for invading another country. But what many may not be aware of they also have plans for Alien invasions.
Just this year Israel the IAF’s Ofek cyber unit recently held a training exercise against aliens, in a simulation designed to push cadets to guard the cyber information more tightly then they would normally. The exercise had the recruits hack an “alien” computing system, in order to uncover the loopholes in the software. http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-soldiers-train-for-ufo-hack-attack/
ALIEN SAVIORS
Many have speculated on the ways in which a friendly civilization might interact with humankind. a highly advanced civilization might teach humanity such things as a physical theory of everything, how to use zero-point energy, or how to travel faster than light.
A friendly civilization could help humanity in many ways:
1) Intervention to avert catastrophe: this would involve occasional limited intervention to stop events that could destroy human civilization completely, such as nuclear war or asteroid impact.
2) Advice and action with consent: under this approach, the extraterrestrials would be more closely involved in terrestrial affairs, advising world leaders and acting with their consent to protect against danger.
3) Forcible corrective action: the extraterrestrials could require humanity to reduce major risks against its will, intending to help humans advance to the next stage of civilization.
Acting only with consent to be a more likely choice than the forceful option. While coercive aid may be possible, and advanced extraterrestrials would recognize their own practices as superior to those of humanity, it may be unlikely that this method would be used in cultural cooperation.
Instruction of a civilization in its “technological adolescence”, such as humanity, would probably focus on morality and ethics rather than on science and technology, to ensure that the civilization did not destroy itself with technology it was not yet ready to use and the technology it already has.
A joint effort between NASA and Pennsylvania State University, answered the question ‘Would Contact With Extraterrestrials Benefit Or Harm Humanity?’
In the best case scenarios put forward, the scientists claim that mankind could swap information to overcome hunger, poverty and disease and more. if ET’s are significantly more advanced than humanity, then the outcome of contact may depend primarily on ETI desires. However, this leaves open speculation as to the specific desires of ET and raises the question of what ethical framework they follow. Much can be said about ETI ethics. Here we focus on one key aspect: selfishness vs. universalism. In rough terms, a selfish ET is one that desires to maximize its own self-interest, whereas a universalist ET is one that desires to maximize the interests of everyone, regardless of which civilization they are part of.
An initial scenario of cooperative ET involves friendly and informative communication between our respective civilizations. Assuming ET are sufficiently interested in humanity (which is not guaranteed, given that they would likely be much more advanced), they may choose to maintain
communication at length to discuss mathematics, physics, and chemistry and to learn more about Earth life.
In a more remarkable and unlikely case, we may learn that ET occupy some region of space where different or unknown physical principles apply, which would certainly be a unique discovery for humanity. Thus through such a conversation we may come to acquire a deeper understanding of mathematics or science, and we may also discover specifics about the ET home world or ET biology.
Other factors that would be affected including Religion, and our hierarchy on the Planet and the Universe,..One thing is for sure,…It would change everything!!!
What are your thoughts?
Thank you,
Brent Peterson
@UAATN.COM
{ http://ufoandalientruthnetwork.com/ }
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