๐งต ok, so alien life is found tomorrow 300 light years away
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:34:24 UTC No. 16123391
what's the next step? surely they are too far away and it won't affect our lives at all.
unless alien life is found in proxima centauri, it's useless to search for alien life
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:37:48 UTC No. 16123395
>>16123391
How about right now. The apple logo has a bite. There's more, it's almost everything which is like this in hell. You're in hell. Get back to work slave.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:39:01 UTC No. 16123397
>>16123391
What if alien life already found us
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:41:11 UTC No. 16123399
>>16123397
same thing. if they found us in the 1960s and already sent a message, but it won't reach us until 2260 what's the fucking point?
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:41:58 UTC No. 16123402
>>16123391
Traveling? although it's a waste of time probably.
Think in how internet changed international travels.
1. the most common thing would be 'trivial' info exchange and discoveries
2. genetic info exchange
2. is the only realistic way to travel. Not a new idea because generally speaking the pretty much the only interesting places are those already inhabited. Or easy to justify.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:46:16 UTC No. 16123407
>>16123391
>what's the next step?
tax increase to fight the aliens that are coming to clap your cheeks and steal your oil
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:47:16 UTC No. 16123408
>>16123402
>the most common thing would be 'trivial' info exchange and discoveries
>be me, in the 2020s
>send a message to the aliens asking how to make a spaceship that takes us to mars and the solution to riemann's hypothesis
>the answer arrives 600 fucking years later, when I have figured out by myself already and also my civilization has collapsed and someone else rules the world now
doesn't sound very practical to me
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:52:03 UTC No. 16123414
>>16123391
I would live my life and try to ignore the shitstorm of media/normie "opinions"
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:54:57 UTC No. 16123415
>>16123408
one interesting scenario for lightspeed limited travel is that if any alien happens to stumble upon us here, they're most likely to stick around and try to blend in and do shit. it's a long way back home, even close to lightspeed going back or sending a message is kind of the same thing, apart from energy use obviously.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:56:08 UTC No. 16123416
>>16123408
Imagine it like an alternative solution or fallback source either if you fail or your civilization collapses. Not a waste because it's almost free for a planet so it's worthy. The cost isn't in transmitting but interpreting and understanding their knowledge.
'Human' resources always are scarce.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:56:40 UTC No. 16123417
>>16123415
Hey, I'm an alien. I actually have a clock in my mind which synchs up my thoughts. It turns me into a 300IQ genius in hell. Now that my IQ is so high, I've discovered there's actually no sense of urgency, and we can all relax in hell. God is making football and storing dead niggers in dead nigger storage. But the theory is he's only storing himself in hell. You're in hell.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:41:54 UTC No. 16123459
How do we communicate with an intelligent alien race who lives on a planet like ours and has managed to build up their technology to the degree that we have?
We can send prime numbers to them and someone will eventually realise what they mean
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:43:16 UTC No. 16123461
>>16123459
if you have any common sense, you don't. nobody cares about anyone unless they need something from them.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:47:18 UTC No. 16123466
>>16123391
We probably spend a couple of years arguing about what to do but end up transmitting to them.
I think the first few transmissions would need to be pretty big so we can ask and pre-emptively answer a bunch of questions then wait 600 years to hear back.
If you mean what does it mean for those alive today it might drive more international cooperation for a generation or two as we have a possible external threat but knowing people we'll back back to fighting among ourselves within a century.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 02:48:21 UTC No. 16123520
>>16123391
I only really care if they are other humans. If they are just plants or animals then whatever, we kind of already knew that
>>16123395
Tell me something I don't know
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 02:50:38 UTC No. 16123521
>>16123399
Even if it reaches the earth, our biggest antennas are still too small to capture anyshit from lightyears of away
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:48:39 UTC No. 16123614
>>16123391
We will send some cringe messages and that's it, we can forget about anything else.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:13:55 UTC No. 16123836
>>16123459
What if it turns out they find prime numbers incredibly insulting, like their version of being called a nigger?
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:07:28 UTC No. 16124524
>>16123391
Depends on your magic system