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Originally posted by SuzianneWhy would they want ANYTHING from Earth? Asteroids godda be a lot easier for spacefarers to mine. Water? Comets have a lot, Callisto has more than Earth!
I'd say, "You're right, we're primitive, and we're dangerous. Save yourselves. Neutron bombs from orbit and then come down and take what's left."
Nah, they just leave us alone, we are well on our way to offing ourselves.
Good Thread.
The choice has already been made and music was placed on Voyager
in the mid 70's and sent 'out there'.
Last report, June 2010, state it is 14 billion kilometers from the Sun and is
heading for another Solar Syatem.
Musici includes Chuck Berry singing 'Johnny B. Goode', Mozart, Beethoven,
pan pipes etc...etc.
The whole list of the music onboard is here.
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/music.html
Not worried too much what we will play them.
Worried what they will send us back.
Tom Cruise is bad enough, but an alien version of Tom Cruise.....
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Originally posted by greenpawn34The only problem with that idea is the vastness of space and the incredibly small size of the probe compared to even a space rock. Aliens would have to be lucky on a scale that would make the lottery seem like a sure thing.
Good Thread.
The choice has already been made and music was placed on Voyager
in the mid 70's and sent 'out there'.
Last report, June 2010, state it is 14 billion kilometers from the Sun and is
heading for another Solar Syatem.
Musici includes Chuck Berry singing 'Johnny B. Goode', Mozart, Beethoven,
pan pipes etc...etc.
The whole list of ...[text shortened]... hey will send us back.
Tom Cruise is bad enough, but an alien version of Tom Cruise.....
Even radio and tv signals have gone out 100 light years so our RF wavefront is a sphere about 200 light years across. Even that would have little chance of being detected, although our own technology could detect our own transmissions from further than 100 light years but we don't see anything in those close in stars, suggesting there may only be a few technical civilizations in the whole galaxy at one time.
If a technically capable civilization lasts 10,000 years, which for humans seems a bit of a stretch, but using that figure, a radio wavefront advancing through the galaxy could just be in the wrong place at the wrong time, since our galaxy is 100,000 LY across or so, that leaves physical room for ten such 10,000 year long signal 'pulses' where a civilization is on fire for a brief period of time and then fades away. In that case we may never see a technical civilization in our entire theoretical 10,000 year technically capable history. Does that make sense?
In other words, all this carefully cultured angst about aliens eating us for breakfast is probably wasted effort.
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Originally posted by sonhouseShow them The Shield.
What do you do? show them Kiss? Segovia, Jordi Savall? Alfred Hitchcock? Mozart? Da Vinci?
How do you present the accomplishments of the human race in the best light, they are trying to figure out if we are worthy of joining the Galactic League.
They will leave soon...
Originally posted by sonhouseSlaves. Food. Bio-incubators for their parasitic offspring. Hang on, didn't this question come up before?
Why would they want ANYTHING from Earth? Asteroids godda be a lot easier for spacefarers to mine. Water? Comets have a lot, Callisto has more than Earth!
Nah, they just leave us alone, we are well on our way to offing ourselves.
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Originally posted by greenpawn34Well, it's headed for interstellar space, true, but given the extreme vastness of space, it would have to be extremely lucky to actually enter another solar system.
Last report, June 2010, state it is 14 billion kilometers from the Sun and is
heading for another Solar System.
edit: props, sonhouse, hehe
I think that you have to distinguish between aliens and E.T.'s...
Most humans are aliens on their own planet...
I'm sure the more advanced E.T, races would be able to listen to our music and see our films.
But they are probably more interested in the movie that is human life and its potential for evolution into a new dimension🙂
Originally posted by greenpawn34Tom Cruise is bad enough, but an alien version of Tom Cruise.....
Good Thread.
The choice has already been made and music was placed on Voyager
in the mid 70's and sent 'out there'.
Last report, June 2010, state it is 14 billion kilometers from the Sun and is
heading for another Solar Syatem.
Musici includes Chuck Berry singing 'Johnny B. Goode', Mozart, Beethoven,
pan pipes etc...etc.
The whole list of ...[text shortened]... hey will send us back.
Tom Cruise is bad enough, but an alien version of Tom Cruise.....
He'd look something like John Travolta in Battlefield Earth...
http://www.latinoreview.com/images/user/John_Travolta_i_flop_94103o.jpg
Originally posted by sonhouseDr. Dog, and call it close enough.
What do you do? show them Kiss? Segovia, Jordi Savall? Alfred Hitchcock? Mozart? Da Vinci?
How do you present the accomplishments of the human race in the best light, they are trying to figure out if we are worthy of joining the Galactic League.
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Originally posted by sonhouseBach, of course.
What do you do? show them Kiss? Segovia, Jordi Savall? Alfred Hitchcock? Mozart? Da Vinci?
How do you present the accomplishments of the human race in the best light, they are trying to figure out if we are worthy of joining the Galactic League.
Equally of course, they already know him.
Richard