Cosmic Connection
“If We Succeed In considering the problem of interstellar communication, some people are worried. What if a civilization we come into contact with is more advanced than we?
The history of contact between advanced and backward technological civilizations on Earth is a sorry one. The technically less advanced societies–although they may have superior mathematics or astronomy or poetry or moral precepts–get wiped out. If this is a law of societal natural selection here, why not elsewhere? And i...n that case, should we not keep quiet?
There are those who predict a dire catastrophe if we broadcast our presence to another star. The extraterrestrials will come and–eat us, or something equally unpleasant. (Actually, if we are especially tasty, they need only sample one of us, determine what sequence of our amino acids makes us appetizing, and then reconstruct the relevant proteins on their own planet. The high freightage makes us economically, if not gastronomically, unappetizing.) The message aboard Pioneer 10 was criticized by a few because it “gave away”MoreLess
The history of contact between advanced and backward technological civilizations on Earth is a sorry one. The technically less advanced societies–although they may have superior mathematics or astronomy or poetry or moral precepts–get wiped out. If this is a law of societal natural selection here, why not elsewhere? And i...n that case, should we not keep quiet?
There are those who predict a dire catastrophe if we broadcast our presence to another star. The extraterrestrials will come and–eat us, or something equally unpleasant. (Actually, if we are especially tasty, they need only sample one of us, determine what sequence of our amino acids makes us appetizing, and then reconstruct the relevant proteins on their own planet. The high freightage makes us economically, if not gastronomically, unappetizing.) The message aboard Pioneer 10 was criticized by a few because it “gave away”MoreLess
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