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| I'm an QA engineer / researcher in North Carolina, USA, working a variety of military and civilian simulation projects. |
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I run SETI@Home because I believe it's important to find out whether or not the universe is a terrible waste of space; and, if not, whether intelligent ETs taste like chicken. Wouldn't it be a literally cosmic irony if they did?
If we were to "transmit a beacon for others to find", we ought to include information to the effect that we humans taste like aspirin. I don't think we want technologically superior alien species thinking about us in the wrong sort of way. For all we know, something like Iron Chef is already an intergalactic phenomenon, with a frightening alien analogue of Kaga-san designating various inferior species as theme ingredients in a barbarous (but highly refined and unquestionably tasty) cooking competition.
One could make a fairly persuasive case that this has already happened, and that the scary aliens have now found employment doing voiceover work in Pokémon cartoons.
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