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Originally Posted by Excalibur Bane
I don't think the guys that thought up the idea put much thought into the fact that if we do run into an intelligent species they may not be friendly.
It just isn't a good idea to be sending out a message with that much information on our planet and what not. We might as well be painting a galactic bullseye on the planet. "Greetings from Earth, please come and conquer us." God help us if a highly advanced race does pick pick up our info and decides to conquer the planet or just wipe us out.
We're pretty much defenseless against any kind of space or orbital threat. They could just park in orbit, bombard our major cities into ruins and come down at their leisure to mop up the survivors. Or better yet, just use the data we handed to them to develop a nice biological weapon to wipe us all out in one clean stroke.
Paranoid? Yeah, probably but that was just something I was thinking about.  |
Well then you better make sure every TV station, cell phone provider etc shuts down business because all that gets sent in to space. Don’t blame SETI for sending a greeting to other worlds when everything FOX puts on TV is being sent to other worlds. Hell people on Alpha Centauri just learned that Firefly was canceled, I wouldn’t blame them if they decided to invade- heck I think I would help.