Kairos@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-215 days agoIf you could ask one question and be guaranteed the correct answer, what would you ask?message-squaremessage-square121linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareIf you could ask one question and be guaranteed the correct answer, what would you ask?Kairos@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-215 days agomessage-square121linkfedilink
minus-squareAstralPath@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·15 days agoI’d rephrase and ask "where is the most similarly advanced - relative to humans- intelligent life outside the solar system. I wanna weed out all the low hanging fruit and find folks we might have a chance of talking to at some point.
minus-squareKeshara@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 days agoAt that point, why go for ‘similarly advanced’? Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to target intelligent life that has far outdone our own technologies? We would probably have a better chance at real communication with them too
minus-square「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」(old account, migrated to Piefed)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·14 days agoNah, then they could murder us… It’s safer to find one just advanced enough but not too advanced…
minus-squareCoastal_Explorer@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoThe Avatar movie depicts what could happen in a scenario where we find intelligent life, but we’re the more advanced civilization.
I’d rephrase and ask "where is the most similarly advanced - relative to humans- intelligent life outside the solar system.
I wanna weed out all the low hanging fruit and find folks we might have a chance of talking to at some point.
At that point, why go for ‘similarly advanced’? Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to target intelligent life that has far outdone our own technologies?
We would probably have a better chance at real communication with them too
Nah, then they could murder us… It’s safer to find one just advanced enough but not too advanced…
The Avatar movie depicts what could happen in a scenario where we find intelligent life, but we’re the more advanced civilization.