Man, and I was just gettin' ready to party like it's ID4.
Has E.T. made a call? I'm hopeful.
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Across the globe, researchers searching for signs of life in space were abuzz this week with word that a mystery signal has been picked up by a giant radio-telescope in Puerto Rico. Now the dilemma is -- how do you answer it?Just keep throwing our intellectual garbage out in to space like we have been. Then again, they may well interpret all our electronic advertising broadcasts as some form of attack.
According to the famous Drake Equation, astronomers estimate there are an estimated 10,000 intelligent civilizations just in our galaxy, the nearest one is likely very far away, but many scientists urge caution when it comes to initiating contact.I, for one, am really looking forward to undeniable alien contact. Nationalism will slip away to nothing once we are forced to admit there's whole other intelligent species out there. Sadly, our reaction may well be to band together to kill them, but at least that's all of humanity coming together like brothers (in arms). We, as a species, suck.
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By the way, note the "many scientists" statement they make, which is then backed up by a lone quote from a single scientist without any corroborating links, references, or bibliography citations. That's quality journalism.
Have you read Larry Niven's THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE? It's about contact with another race that goes, well, a bit haywire. Excellent book.
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