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Hi,
I am 59 yrs young and retired; from Victoria (Australia). Past employements have been as follows:- 20 year Royal Australian Navy (rtrd) in the field of weapons systems. 10 yrs Merchant Navy as electrical enginneer. 10 yrs in the water industry managing radio telemetry/instrumentation process monitoring systems. Have been keenly interested since childhood in science ( particularly physics ), especially on discoveries in space and various theories of creation. Hobbies include computing, fishing and photography to name a few. |
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1. Firmly believe life exists out there somewhere. Mankind would have to be very bigheaded and small minded to believe we are the only form of advanced? intelligence in existence. One only has to look skyward at night to figure the odds. We may not discover extraterrestrial life, it (they) might discover us, or maybe already have. Benefits could be in imparted scientific knowledge for the good of mankind. (say in clean unlimited power sources). Possible advances in medicine. The various religions of the world would be forced to take a good look at themselves, which might cut out 50% of the world's troubles for a start. The dangers of such a discovery I believe would outweigh the benifits. There is danger of cross infection of diseases of which our immune system has no defence (as in Africa when missionaries first came in contact with natives).
Our extraterrestrial neighbours may be a highly advanced civilisation ( more than likely as they would have probably been around longer than us based on the
Earth's age. That could be bad for us if they are meat eaters we cannot communicate with. Maybe we could try mooing like a cow?. Judging by ourselves , there is also a good possibility they may not be peacefull, although
they are hardly likely to come across the universe to start a war they may regard us as a sub species and treat us accordingly.
2. Humans have been transmitting into space since Morse code was invented, that coupled with all subsequent electrical/radiation type transmissions should have ( I would have thought) been more than enough to announce our presence. However, even with all of the signal emmanating from the planet, they might be not headed in the right direction at the right time and possibly not even be understood if they were. I see no problem with transmitting a beacon and would suggest that possible binary messages would be the way to go. Communication will be one of our biggest hurdles: |
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