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Originally Posted by Moontanman
SETI puts a considerable effort into finding extraterestrails under the assumption that they want to be found and are intentionally putting out a enough radiation in some way for us to detect them. Recent upgrades allow them to detect relatively nearby extraterestrails by eavesdropping on their normal communications.
But what if the extraterestrails do not want to be detected? It has been hypothesized that extraterestrails might want to smack down any up and coming civilizations to prevent competition. This might cause them to want hide or to simply not wanting to be bothered by primitives.
If we assume that extraterestrails are really hiding then how could we detect them? What would we look for to detect ET's if they are not actively broadcasting or if they are actually hiding?
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It may not be just that they do not wish to be detected.
Consider this analogy first. Say you would like to communicate with an ant. How would you go about it ? Forms of communication are very different. How would you get
your point across to a creature that is developmentally on a lower scale that ours. Now
reverse this; say we are the ants. How would we communicate with anyone out there ?
It may not be so much that they don't want to talk with. They not have the interest like
we what interest would we have conversing with ants.
Second, is the technology of communication. Who is to say that future civilizations wish
to modulate radio signals the way we do right now. Imagine a culture with 10,000 years
of technology advancements. Could we guess what types of communication is being sent
to us right now, only we don't know it ???
maddog
