S.E.T.I. just isn't a good idea.

Excalibur Bane · 05-20-06, 03:01 PM

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.

05-20-06, 03:01 PM	#1
Excalibur Bane XO Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 429 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	S.E.T.I. just isn't a good idea. 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. __________________ Looking for a list of mods for SH4? Everything you need is here: List Of Modifications for SH4 v1.3 "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing."