This article strikes me as AI written or at least partially. Each paragraph topic is so broad to the point of being pointless.
As a response to the general topic, iykyk:
“Do not answer. Do not answer. Do not answer.”
I agree with you that the article has no substance. I didn’t learn anything reading it…
If we discover intelligent extraterrestrial life, I’m sure the first question our current leaders will ask will be “how do we monetize this?”
I wonder how the conversation would go since the delay would be at best several years.
Bloody speed of light is just so slow…
We cannot even have meaningful conversations with our closest genetic relatives, the chimps. We studied the songs of the whales for decades and haven’t deciphered a single word (AFAIK). There is a lot of work to do, before we can even dream of talking to someone from outer space.
You never know, it might prompt us to realise that we are all on the same planet, in the vast emptiness of space, with no planet B within travelling range. It might make us stop our petty squabbling and work together to protect our home.
Lol. Nah.
I’m in the ‘don’t respond if they contact us’ camp. I’ve seen 3 Body Problem and read enough history to know what happens to the lower technological society.
If you’ve read Lem’s Fiasco, then that’s the alternative scenario where “they” are the society lower technologically. It’s very well written and tragic.
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(Spoiler alert - the command of “us” loses their minds from arrogance and misunderstanding the motives of “them”, and the protagonist sent to the surface realizes what “they” are too late to signal that “they” shouldn’t be nuked, the end.)
