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A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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Re: A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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Post by lelandfe »

stareatgoats wrote: post #6
techwiz137 wrote: post #2

Am I the only one that thinks it's not a good idea? I mean the signal hasnt traveled very far, but yeah these announcements "hey, we're here" aren't very nice.

I used to think I was the only one, but now it seems we are two at least. In fact the main reason we haven't discovered advanced civilizations on other planets is likely that they learned not to disclose it - the hard way...

This is the plot of the very good sci-fi book The Three-Body Problem and its two sequels. It popularized the dark forest theory a sibling commenter linked to.

That is: if you’re in a forest that’s dead silent, and you’re wondering where all the animals are, it might not be a good idea to start shouting.

Re: A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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Post by dylan604 »

A group of us DJ friends used to say "we speak alien" which was a comment about the type of music we played. There's a group by the name of Eat Static which is known for their prolific use of aliens trope and 50s style sci-fi samples that has an album titled "Abduction". One of the tracks is called "Gulf Breeze" which at one point was famous for the most reports of alien abductions. I always wanted to spend a night playing music on the beach waiting for the aliens to make an appearance as it seemed to be the most likely of places for it to happen.

Just a random story on a bored sunday

Re: A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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Post by dylan604 »

notso411 wrote: post #5
lijok wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. Horrible idea to broadcast our position like this. But hella exciting

Bit late for that mate.

Not really sure why this was killed, but it's absolutely true. From the moment we started making radio signals, we've been broadcasting our location. Every single time we communicate with our deep space probes, we're sending out very specific signals that we're here. To that end, that's the entire point of the opening scene in the movie Contact. It's just that the time frame we've been broadcasting is just a drop in the ocean of cosmological time, and the signals really haven't gone very far in comparison.

Re: A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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thegrim33 wrote: post #10
techwiz137 wrote: post #2

Am I the only one that thinks it's not a good idea? I mean the signal hasnt traveled very far, but yeah these announcements "hey, we're here" aren't very nice.

I personally believe METI practitioners are extremely arrogant ideologues. They've decided that they speak for the entire world, the entire human race, and that they can risk all life on this planet. They think they know better than everyone else, they think they're smart enough, when in reality they truly know nothing about what else is lurking out there in the universe, just like the rest of us. The only rational,…

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Re: A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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Post by unsupp0rted »

thegrim33 wrote: post #10
techwiz137 wrote: post #2

Am I the only one that thinks it's not a good idea? I mean the signal hasnt traveled very far, but yeah these announcements "hey, we're here" aren't very nice.

I personally believe METI practitioners are extremely arrogant ideologues. They've decided that they speak for the entire world, the entire human race, and that they can risk all life on this planet. They think they know better than everyone else, they think they're smart enough, when in reality they truly know nothing about what else is lurking out there in the universe, just like the rest of us. The only rational,…

Reminds me of the people with “Welcome to Earth” placards standing on rooftops in Independence Day (1996).

Re: A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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Post by mpreda »

thegrim33 wrote: post #10
techwiz137 wrote: post #2

Am I the only one that thinks it's not a good idea? I mean the signal hasnt traveled very far, but yeah these announcements "hey, we're here" aren't very nice.

I personally believe METI practitioners are extremely arrogant ideologues. They've decided that they speak for the entire world, the entire human race, and that they can risk all life on this planet. They think they know better than everyone else, they think they're smart enough, when in reality they truly know nothing about what else is lurking out there in the universe, just like the rest of us. The only rational,…

It seems to me you're projecting our own human nature over all possible intelligent life.

But with a bit of imagination the potential space of intelligent life is much larger than just "displaying human-like agressive traits".

Re: A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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Post by dylan604 »

ijhuygft776 wrote: post #8
techwiz137 wrote: post #2

Am I the only one that thinks it's not a good idea? I mean the signal hasnt traveled very far, but yeah these announcements "hey, we're here" aren't very nice.

I think music is the perfect solution.

Until we find out that rap/hip-hop is interpreted as an aggressive war challenge, or you can find out that yodeling country music is an effective weapon.

Re: A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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Post by tinix »

dylan604 wrote: post #12

A group of us DJ friends used to say "we speak alien" which was a comment about the type of music we played. There's a group by the name of Eat Static which is known for their prolific use of aliens trope and 50s style sci-fi samples that has an album titled "Abduction". One of the tracks is called "Gulf Breeze" which at one point was famous for the most reports of alien abductions. I always wanted to spend a night p…

gulf breeze florida? i grew up around there, lots of air force bases in the region, and seeing "UFOs" was very common. can't say i ever heard about abductions though... we definitely saw craft accelerate very quickly without sonic booms (which were common from jets)
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