Kairos@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agoIf you could ask one question and be guaranteed the correct answer, what would you ask?message-squaremessage-square138linkfedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down11
arrow-up151arrow-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-22 months agomessage-square138linkfedilink
minus-squarepruwyben@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up21·2 months agoWhere is the nearest intelligent life outside the solar system?
minus-squareAstralPath@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 months 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-up4·2 months 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-up7arrow-down1·2 months agoNah, then they could murder us… It’s safer to find one just advanced enough but not too advanced…
minus-squareCoastal_Explorer@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoThe Avatar movie depicts what could happen in a scenario where we find intelligent life, but we’re the more advanced civilization.
minus-squarejaycifer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months 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!
Where is the nearest intelligent life outside the solar system?
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.
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!