I'm probably like a lot
of people. I've read plenty of books and watched many different
movies about aliens from another planet coming here to earth. If you
ask me if I think it is possible, I would say a few years ago many
people believed the Chicago Cubs winning another World Series could
never happen. The Chicago Cubs did win another World Series in 2016,
so I suppose anything is possible.
When it comes to people
from another planet visiting us, it does make me wonder what type of
conversation would take place. There would probably be a machine
designed to unscramble the language of the alien beings into ours.
They would be on a screen with all of their elongated heads and huge
eyes speaking into a device that seems to be a microphone.
“Hello, people of
this planet. We have watched you at a distance with amazement for
several years. It is good to be able to communicate with you.”
“What have you found
out about our planet that impresses you?”
“It was amazing the
Chicago Cubs won a World Series 2016, but the Cleveland Cavaliers
winning a basketball championship in 2016 was even more amazing.”
“Anything else?”
“We've tried to
replicate the iced caramel macchiato on our planet with little luck.
We have done better with designing our own version of a Subway
sandwich.”
“Oh.”
Below are excerpts from
the story with my valuable insights in italics.
ETs are on our mind. At
the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, an
entire evening’s event was all about extraterrestrials. A special
dance troupe performed to an eclectic mix of sounds. The sounds were
excerpts taken from a famous golden record, intended for intelligent
life in the universe. The 12-inch copper gold plated disk is known as
the Pioneer Golden Record.
(Sarcasm
Alert)
I guess it is good to
know the California Academy of Sciences had a dance troupe perform to
sounds that were an eclectic mix. What beings from another planet
could resist coming to such a party? Since they were taken from a
famous golden record that is roaming around space, I suppose it all
makes sense. Did anyone think to send in a record player into space
with it? They are hard to find here, I can only imagine the cost
would be to import one to another planet. What if these beings look
at this golden disc and use it to invent the Frisbee. If they do
figure out a way to play the golden disc, I hope they realize there
is actually a dance performed in San Francisco that goes with it.
“We can do more than
just gaze at the stars.” remarked Russian billionaire Yuri Milner,
who along with his wife, Julia, in 2015 unveiled a project called
the Breakthrough Initiatives to search for extraterrestrial
intelligence over the span of at least 10 years.
Part of the Initiatives
program includes a $1,000,000 Breakthrough Message competition,
where the task is to design a digital message to send to advanced
civilizations.
I can only imagine what
the winner of the digitally designed message could be for advanced
civilizations. I know in the United States, it is possible for
companies to design their own digital messages. I bet McDonald's
message would provide a discount on their new McIntellersteller
burger. It may come with lunar fries and a drink that is out of this
world. Walmart message would be offering anything beings from
another planet would need for their journey back to their world. It
could include solar powered heaters, electrical rechargers and more.
The insurance companies message would want to make certain the space
aliens are covered in case they have an accident or emergency when
they are here. It is possible beings from another planet know this
and have chosen to avoid this planet.
“It’s a message
written in a language of math and science,” said Vakoch. He
explained that the messages would be sent by radio or in the near
future, by lasers, using very brief laser pulses. Unlike the Voyager
golden record which contains a virtual encyclopedia of information
about the earth, METI message will focus on one topic at a time, but each
message will be repeated multiple times over the course of days,
weeks, and months.
I wonder if the beings
from another planet will communicate and say they are sick and tired
of reading messages in the language of science and math. They may
say the constant transmissions are annoying and to stop them. It's
possible they'll find these transmissions as annoying as political
advertising. These space aliens may request to read some classic
fiction like The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells or Journey to
Mars by Gustavus W. Pope. If they want to read anything by James
Patterson, they need to go back to the planet where they came from
and never bother us again.
Not everyone agrees we
should go warp-speed with rapidly concocting and sending messages.
“I’ve seen Mars
Attacks and that ended horribly! So I don’t know.” laughed Alicia
Adams who was stargazing on the roof of the California Academy of
Sciences in San Francisco.
“I think it’s a scary
concept of actually letting people whom we don’t know, or things we
don’t know, know we’re here,” said Grainne Barron who was
visiting from Ireland.
(Sarcasm Alert)
I suppose if you've
seen Mars Attacks, you have justified reason to fear beings from
another planet. I hope there are people in San Francisco who realize
that was a fictional movie and not a documentary. Something tells me
they may be working on a dance routine to match the movie for when
beings from another planet arrive. It is frightening to think of
what could actually happen when making contact with beings from
another planet. Will they want to destroy us, take us over,
criticize the dance routines created in San Francisco or give our
music some really bad reviews on social media. It is possible for
anything to happen.
As for Dr. Drake, he
doesn’t believe Planet Earth needs a new message. Thanks to
television and radio signals traveling in space ever since we’ve
been broadcasting, Drake, thinks intelligent beings already know we’re
here.
“It’s too late, folks.
We’ve made our presence known big-time,” said Drake.
If beings from other
planets know we are here and haven't attempted to communicate with us
after we have made such an effort to communicate with them, there
could be some good reasons. They may not understand what we've tried
to communicate with them, they may not care what we have tried to
communicate with them or they are still shocked with the Cavaliers
and Cubs winning championships in 2016. I suppose we will all have
to wait to find out.
Below is a link to the
story.
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/04/25/messages-extraterrestrial-life-advancing-digital-age/
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