Poll of the Day > I hope aliens find the Voyager probes one day

(+) Yeah! (+)

And theyre all This is an obvious hoax. Even children know how to etch a gold plated copper disc. And humans dont exist besides. And then they throw it into a black hole.

Or maybe their tinkering is the only reason its transmissions are still reaching us...!

I hope they find them, then come to Earth and lock everyone up in warehouses and make us all into their egg hatcheries.

It'd serve us right for flinging diagrams of our DNA and maps of how to find us into space, while beaming signals via SETI, rather than worrying about the possibility that aliens might not be friendly.

Either that, or I would welcome the classic "V" scenario:

https://youtu.be/nfbMx9lNGZM?t=78

We have done nothing to hide our transmissions into the universe, I am sure by the time anyone finds the probe, it will be long after them having picked up any of our transmissions.

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

We have done nothing to hide our transmissions into the universe, I am sure by the time anyone finds the probe, it will be long after them having picked up any of our transmissions.

Contrary to what sci-fi tells you, radio transmissions don't perpetuate forever. Most of the transmissions we've been broadcasting for the last 100 years or so likely become relatively unintelligible beyond the solar system as a whole. It's why stuff like SETI has to use specific aimed high-power signals as opposed to our usual transmissions.

The likelihood that any alien race hundreds of light years away is going to start watching our 1950s sitcoms is pretty much zero.

Realistically, most of our radio transmissions would really only give us away to aliens who are already exploring our local system. But at that point they presumably already know we're here by other means anyway, because otherwise, they wouldn't have a reason to be here in the first place. People severely underestimate just how big and empty space really is, and how insanely unlikely it is to just accidentally happen upon someone or something else.

V'ger!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kscm2_RCcA

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It'd serve us right for flinging diagrams of our DNA and maps of how to find us into space, while beaming signals via SETI, rather than worrying about the possibility that aliens might not be friendly.

I like to believe in the dark forest theory, but we are the ones everyone is avoiding because earth is super violent