As far as I know mankind itself is not sending out any beacons or messages to space, just looking for signals from others. Perhaps we should be doing both. There is also a theory that says once a race develops the technology to destroy itself e.g. nuclear warfare, it is only a matter of time before it does so. Therefore none will be around long enough to be detected anyway. But the whole point is that if we don't look somewhere by any method, we will never find anything anyway. Something is better than nothing.

Perhaps not intentionally, but all those years of radio and TV broadcasts have been going out into space in all directions......

Anyhow ET may be here already and trying to communicate with us. Why do you think flies keep buzzing around our heads? For all we know they are intelligent ET's that are trying to attract our attention. The first 7 spot ladybird that learns to say "take me to your leader" is gonna cause quite a stir :-)

One would hope that a species that has learned how to cross interstellar space will be smart enough to learn how to get our attention without being smashed into a bloody pulp for doing so...

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

As far as I know mankind itself is not sending out any beacons or messages to space, just looking for signals from others. Perhaps we should be doing both. There is also a theory that says once a race develops the technology to destroy itself e.g. nuclear warfare, it is only a matter of time before it does so. Therefore none will be around long enough to be detected anyway. But the whole point is that if we don't look somewhere by any method, we will never find anything anyway. Something is better than nothing.

Perhaps not intentionally, but all those years of radio and TV broadcasts have been going out into space in all directions......

Anyhow ET may be here already and trying to communicate with us. Why do you think flies keep buzzing around our heads? For all we know they are intelligent ET's that are trying to attract our attention. The first 7 spot ladybird that learns to say "take me to your leader" is gonna cause quite a stir :-)

One would hope that a species that has learned how to cross interstellar space will be smart enough to learn how to get our attention without being smashed into a bloody pulp for doing so...

Well there is no way there going to contact us till we learn to be less violent and they won't attack us because why bother we will probably kill our self anyway and the logistics of try to fight a interplant war . and also why bother again when there are 8 other planets they can get everything we have down here but without the hassell of maybe a war. Only when we are not a threat to them will they contact us .Don believe Hollywood they can even get water from one of the moons of Jupiter and there is no math I know of that will allow a force field to stop the effects of a nuke so we are a threat to them but only when we master space travel or if they wish to come down on earth to fight

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and there is no math I know of that will allow a force field to stop the effects of a nuke

The shields of NCC-1701 seemed to function quite well ...

Perhaps not intentionally, but all those years of radio and TV broadcasts have been going out into space in all directions......

The conspiracy theorists will have you believe that the first radio transmissions were picked up in 1900, an ET expedition was launched to investigate, which perished over Russia in 1908. So where was the source, assuming light speed or fast sub-light speed travel?

Sirius 8.6 light years
Alpha Centauri 4.3 light years
Barnards Star 6 light years

Take your choice.

Chris watch Obilvian with Tom cruise and you might think again about having first contact good movie even if Cruise is in it fantastic ending

And NCC-1701 didn't have force fields just heavy Armor plating or you talking about NCC-1701 A

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The Shields of Kirks Enterprise were regularly reported by Spock as up, down, holding, or failing.

That's what I thought you where talking about the first Enterprise had no shields they sort of stuffed up there when they made the new series .

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When I was a kid I remember reading a novel wherein one of the sub-plots involved an alien species whose civilization generated so much heat that they were forced to move their planet to the far fringes of their solar system and just using their primary as an anchor to keep their world from drifting off.

Can't remember anything else about the story tho. :/

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein