In search of ET: Fear of what’s out there causes split among space scientists
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#2I will never understand people who are afraid of the unknown.
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#3I will never understand people who are afraid of the unknown.
I will never understand anyone who would randomly pick a mushroom from the forest floor and start nibbling on it.
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#4I will never understand people who are afraid of the unknown.
The unknown is the source of everything good and bad, useful and useless. It evokes fear and hope.
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#5I will never understand people who are afraid of the unknown.
Fear of the unknown is what kept our smarter ancestors from getting eaten by bears without knowing what was in the cave first.
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#6I haven't seen any anti-METI argument which counters this:
"Humans, Vakoch said, have been using radar, which can purportedly be detected 70 light-years away, since World War II. Television and radio signals would long ago have signaled our presence to malevolent space ruffians, he said."
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#7Not discussed by the article, but I wonder...Is it more terrible to find out that nobody's out there? Nobody's listening?
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#8Being enslaved by evil aliens is among the worst of fears. The risk isn’t death or annhilation; it’s being denied the mercy of a short (100 years) existence, in bondage and suffering.
I fully support a careful approach to combing the cosmos.
Edit: May I ask why this is being downvoted?
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#9Not discussed by the article, but I wonder...Is it more terrible to find out that nobody's out there? Nobody's listening?
No. It’s much better that there’s no one out there than we being the colonised.
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#10I haven't seen any anti-METI argument which counters this: "Humans, Vakoch said, have been using radar, which can purportedly be detected 70 light-years away, since World War II. Television and radio signals would long ago have signaled our presence to malevolent space ruffians, he said."
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