Current Events > Radio signals from deep space being sent out to us

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LeperMessiahXX posted...

We've spent a lot of time trying to find life on other planets, it's just crazy to think about the possibility that the only time we make any sort of a real contact is millions of years after we're all dead.

Still exciting could mean AI or abandoned Tech you know like eventually something's going to find the f****** Voyager probe unless I just go straight into a star you know? And even someting like that would be a huge morale boost to any others looking

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I wouldn't say they're "being sent to us." More that "we're receiving them."

Likely is a natural cause that we don't know about yet, that is being transmitted in all directions, or specific directions that we happen to be in.
On the off-chance that it is caused by intelligence that intentionally sent them (which, when you think about it, is also a "natural cause" technically ) then they were likely sent to galaxies that may harbor life. Not specifically with us in mind. And also, it was sent 3 billion years ago. About 2.4 billion years before multicellular life existed on Earth.

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I'd only worry if the signals are coming from the moon.

In that scenario they're at our backdoor and start playing celestial chess against us.

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Prediction: Earth-like planets with complex life are common as dirt. Eventually, civilizations emerge and become advanced enough to interpret the radio bursts. The message is simple: keep your head down, or you're dead. Species that attempt to become multiplanetary, develop Dyson spheres, etc., are wiped out before they become a threat to galactic stability.

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One sobering thought I have sometimes had is what if we finally get out into the galaxy and we explore all over and everywhere we go we keep finding ruins of ancient long dead civilizations. And we realize the galaxy used to be teeming with life but we missed it and now we are alone. I think that woukd suck more than just finding nothing ever

Zikten posted...

One sobering thought I have sometimes had is what if we finally get out into the galaxy and we explore all over and everywhere we go we keep finding ruins of ancient long dead civilizations. And we realize the galaxy used to be teeming with life but we missed it and now we are alone. I think that woukd suck more than just finding nothing ever

It would be a pretty cool time to be an archaeologist, or a lover of ancient languages and literature.

There was an episode of Star Trek where they beamed down to a planet that was about to be destroyed and found that all its inhabitants had escaped into different times. Perhaps that's what some of those ruined societies would have done: gone into virtual reality, you know, and lost any impetus to reproduce, or developed femtotechnological emulations of themselves, invisible to the eye, but living quadrillions of rich virtual lives in an environment that only looks dead.

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rivers posted...

Prediction: Earth-like planets with complex life are common as dirt. Eventually, civilizations emerge and become advanced enough to interpret the radio bursts. The message is simple: keep your head down, or you're dead. Species that attempt to become multiplanetary, develop Dyson spheres, etc., are wiped out before they become a threat to galactic stability.

So the Dark Forest theory?

I don't buy it. It really only works if species are somehow excluded entirely from going to and colonizing other star systems. But if you're able to kill another star system, which is kind of a fundamental part of the theory, then you've got the technology to spread to other star systems.

Once you can spread to other systems, you are no longer at risk of being easily wiped out by a single attack. And if you're not at risk of being easily wiped out, you'd be more likely to take the chance of introducing yourself to another species. It just doesn't seem to fit with some pretty basic evolutionary principles. After all, we actually have dark forests here on Earth, and they're full of animals announcing themselves to each other despite the likely presence of predators.

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Zikten posted...

One sobering thought I have sometimes had is what if we finally get out into the galaxy and we explore all over and everywhere we go we keep finding ruins of ancient long dead civilizations. And we realize the galaxy used to be teeming with life but we missed it and now we are alone. I think that woukd suck more than just finding nothing ever

https://youtu.be/jRXQsQKGqIU

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