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|u/snoogans235 - 10 hours
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|> 74. It was meant as a demonstration of human technological
|achievement, rather than a real attempt to enter into a conversation
|with extraterrestrials. Y’all it’s the second sentence. This was a
|“check out this cool graphic we can broadcast”.
|u/Esc777 - 10 hours
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|Yeah it’s more of a math toy than anything else.
|u/snoogans235 - 10 hours
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|You read the bit about the prime components? Definitely a fun math
|toy.
|u/lo_fi_ho - 5 hours
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|Can it be used as a sex toy too?
|u/MonkeysOnMyBottom - 2 hours
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|anything is a sex toy if you're bad enough at math
|u/silly_walks_ - 11 hours
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|We are bugs.
|u/pm_me_old_maps - 3 hours
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|why?
|u/Much-Mud9615 - 3 hours
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|Three body problem reference, the aliens in that book get off on
|calling humanity bugs cause they're projecting as they literally are
|bugs.
|u/jointheredditarmy - 10 hours
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|Back in our innocence before the dark forest theory.
|u/almo2001 - 8 hours
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|That was a bad move. If they are out there and can get here, I'm pretty
|sure we don't want them to know about us yet.
|u/chumble182 - 3 hours
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|I'd argue that if they are out there and can get here, they almost
|certainly know about us regardless of what we send out. If we can
|detect planets potentially suitable for bearing life at our current
|development rate, what makes you think another civilisation that could
|feasibly check *in person* couldn't?
|u/BolivianDancer - 12 hours
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|It's seems a terrible idea. Complex life is improbable. Complex life
|that may respond makes our continued existence even more improbable.
|Best case scenario is the message wasted electricity.
|u/kamensenshi - 11 hours
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|Right. Would be interesting to get a message back that just somehow
|said "Your advertisement worked.".
|u/GraciaEtScientia - 11 hours
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|"We've been trying to reach you about your planet's extended
|warranty."
|u/thisisredlitre - 9 hours
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|"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"
|u/Kiyan1159 - 7 hours
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|Worst case, we get an answer. "Be quiet, or they'll hear you."
|u/TheProfessionalEjit - 7 hours
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|I read that short story too. [For other's reference](https://www.red
|dit.com/r/nosleep/comments/2j3nxz/radio_silence/).
|u/gza_liquidswords - 10 hours
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|"Best case scenario is the message wasted electricity." Yes
|definitely a prime example of not thinking things through to their
|logical conclusion.
|u/Kiyan1159 - 7 hours
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|Definitely a lackluster display of multi ordered thinking
|u/jus4in027 - 9 hours
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|Hopefully they’ll never understand the message or its origin
|u/eyeronik1 - 11 hours
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|Why oh why?
|u/Ionazano - 11 hours
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|Tremendous optimism about intelligent extraterrestrial life in our
|galaxy, based on assumptions and conjecture. People in favour of
|actively trying to contact extraterrestrials often use the supporting
|argument "If we manage to contact extraterrestrials and they're at our
|technological level, then they can't travel to us yet and couldn't
|pose any harm. But if they are much more technologically advanced than
|us, then surely their morals must also be more advanced and must
|therefore be benevolent."
|u/choco_mallows - 9 hours
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|The argument of a Dark Forest is not prevalent back then. It was borne
|on paranoid societies and is why a Chinese author thought about it.
|Reading the novel you can see how deeply tied the fear was to the Red
|State at the time on how other than the self, no one can be trusted.
|Fifty years ago people in a Capitalist system were more optimistic
|about reaching out to extraterrestrials. We were confident that even
|though some may do as harm, the fight would always be humans against
|the aliens. The idea that some transhumanist groups will work against
|humanity was unimaginable.
|u/lepus_fatalis - 4 hours
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|If you think about this, it could also be out of desperation - the
|nuclear war was thought as imminent, with unrecoverable
|consequences, the cold war was raging. I think the mentality behind
|it was "it can t get any worse than this" - an alien response would
|have fostered unity against a common threat, if malign or would have
|ushered us into space age properly, if benevolent. (And in so,
|ending the one-planet issue) Sure they could come in and destroy
|us, but that was almost a given we d do it ourselves. People who
|havent lived those times can't comprehend the constant possibility
|of nuclear holocaust that we had to.live in. I think if we had
|current day s social media and fake news services, we probably would
|have had a nuclear war somewhere mid 80s simply by people pressure
|:)
|u/Bokbreath - 11 hours
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|Because the dumb fucks in charge thought it impossible for aliens to
|be technically advanced and antagonistic - and bet the entire planet
|on that premise.
|u/DaGoodSauce - 11 hours
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|Luckily we have at least 50k years to level the playing field in
|case something hears it and decides to pop by for a visit. If we're
|still around in 50k years we will be thing lurking in the dark
|forest. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
|u/Bokbreath - 10 hours
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|Oh I don't worry. There is most likely nothing out there. It's the
|stupidity of thinking there is, and deciding to start yelling
|'here we are' that gets me.
|u/Ionazano - 8 hours
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|There's an organization called [Messaging Extraterrestrial
|Intelligence
|International](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METI_International)
|that purposely sent out messages intended for extraterrestrials
|much more recently.
|u/MolybdenumIsMoney - 8 hours
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|The signal won't get that far- it has probably already dissipated
|beneath the level of detectability by now.
|u/Esc777 - 10 hours
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|You think this message is the only electromagnetic radiation we’ve
|shot out into space? If people are afraid of aliens discovering us
|it’s too late and impossible. This message doesn’t add to that.
|u/Bokbreath - 10 hours
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|It's the only one (apart from voyager) that doesn't require
|triangulation to figure out where we are.
|u/Merlins_Bread - 11 hours
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|We can presume that any respondents would have similar dumb fucks
|among their numbers. So maybe it will work out okay.
|u/Bokbreath - 11 hours
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|We can't presume anything.
|u/eyeronik1 - 11 hours
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|We can hope…
|u/Bokbreath - 10 hours
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|Yes we can hope. A wonderful basis for planetary survival.
|u/ClassicManLA - 11 hours
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|According to the Why Files a message came back. I can't say I believe
|it, but it's fun and interesting. About 10 min mark.
|https://youtu.be/x2BQyZorSQc?si=zBHrkLCCJFpuC7x3
|u/ycr007 - 10 hours
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|There was also the Arecibo Answer crop circle, which appeared in a
|farmland next to the Chilbolton radio telescope in Hampshire, UK, on
|19 August 2001. It was rebuffed as a Hoax
|https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Arecibo_answer
|u/Black_Label_36 - 7 hours
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|If we take all assumptions aside, I don't see this leaning towards
|either side of hoax or real. For starters, we've never really been
|able to replicate complex crop circles with the exact same details
|and accuracy. They can call it a hoax officially, but I'm still
|not convinced. It needs strong evidence for me to make up my mind
|and right now I don't think we have it.
|u/Leicester68 - 9 hours
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|Can we send a second message? "Never mind."
|u/Black_Label_36 - 7 hours
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|Lol "sorry, butt dial"
|u/MonkeysOnMyBottom - 2 hours
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|If we just send a bunch of unsolicited dick picks and they'll block
|our number.
|u/ChicagoAuPair - 6 hours
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|Arecibo was so fucking cool.
|u/gordonjames62 - 2 hours
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|the weird part to me is that our message gas traveled 50 light years.
|this is still a weak voice in a small, local, area
|u/sdorph - 3 hours
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|I wonder if they got the idea from James E Gunn's novel The listeners,
|in the novel aliens send us a message in a similar format.
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