Kairos@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-214 hours agoIf you could ask one question and be guaranteed the correct answer, what would you ask?message-squaremessage-square108linkfedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down11
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minus-squarepruwyben@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up16·14 hours agoWhere is the nearest intelligent life outside the solar system?
minus-squarejaycifer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoWhy not “what specifically should scientists focus on to develop functional near or faster than light space travel?” Then people can just go check where the aliens are or are not!
minus-squareAstralPath@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up13·14 hours 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-up4·13 hours 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」@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·13 hours agoNah, then they could murder us… It’s safer to find one just advanced enough but not too advanced…
minus-squareCoastal_Explorer@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 hours agoThe Avatar movie depicts what could happen in a scenario where we find intelligent life, but we’re the more advanced civilization.
Where is the nearest intelligent life outside the solar system?
Why not “what specifically should scientists focus on to develop functional near or faster than light space travel?” Then people can just go check where the aliens are or are not!
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.