Physicist Michio Kaku: "Reaching out to aliens is a terrible idea"

[stinkinbadgers]

@rob_bray

Has it crossed anyone’s mind we’re already being ghosted? Not invited to the prom? Ditched?

First Contact

[deltaecho]

@docosc

I suspect there is little danger of (most) of us thinking of an alien civilization as “gods.”

I, too, would have thought that 4 years ago, however:

The Greatest Day

and:

[MerelyGifted]

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[MerelyGifted]

Being a long-time tumblr user, I can say this statement is

[GulliverFoyle]

@Tamsin_Bailey

Elon should head that one, especially if it’s risky.

He’s the only one I trust to pilot it.

@Tamsin_Bailey

May I recommend The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks?

So good.

@Dioptase1

But what I was suggesting was investigating what would or could start happening during our lifetimes. Slow and limited communication, misinformation, masking locations and capabilities, and possible first strike considerations.

For example, do you launch a biological weapon or kinetic weapon in hopes of wiping out someone who might fear us enough to launch first?

Earth by David Brin. Worth a read. Just please keep in mind it’s science fiction, not science.

Earth (Brin novel)

[Ratel]

@Mangochin

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Basic Instructions

[jerwin]

I see your google, and I raise you

Future stellar flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft

The closest encounter will be by Pioneer 10 with the K8 dwarf HIP 117795, at 0.23 pc in 90 kyr at a high relative velocity of 291 km/s.

Don’t get too excited, though.

Statistically, a spacecraft will encounter stars within a given distance at approximately the same rate as the Sun does, which Bailer-Jones et al. (2018b) inferred to be one star within 1 pc every 50 kyr.

[mr_raccoon]

Elon Musk’s response to that idea

Seto Kaiba Is F&%*ing Insane..