What happens if we find intelligent life out there?

Hoping our first contact will be with the Vulcans.
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"There are no international agreements or mechanisms in place for how humanity would handle an encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence, says Niklas Hedman, executive director of UN Office for Outer Space Affairs"

Our Pentagon and Homeland Security do have a protocol in place. Like similar instructions from those sources, it's a booklet. But it's classified Top Secret. Anyway, that's what some retired general whose name I forget said on a serious talk show like Frontline.
 
Alligatorob said:
So do I, I just thought the question of what plan we might have was interesting. We are looking, so some kind of plan would make sense.

However I think the odds of it being implemented are about the same as my winning the lottery, and I don't buy tickets.
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That line about the lottery is a good one!
 
Earth's radio(and TV) transmissions travel at the speed of light, so the broadcast over the radio of the War of the Worlds in 1938 has traveled in all directions into space out 84 light years. Any intelligent civilization within 84 light years(493.92 trillion miles) has listened to that broadcast, understood it to be false, and likely decided to have nothing to do with the inhabitants of planet Earth.
 
That BBC link misses some important issues that media and science fiction writers never want to mention. The human biome contains over 10,000 different microbe species. Within our bodies containing 30 trillion cells are like numbers of bacteria and ten times as many viruses. Every large Earth life animal creature has a similar microbe zoo biome. Most astrophysicists would doubt there is much to fear from worlds that might have life within our Sun's solar system because some levels of contamination have likely already occurred at least at primitive microbe levels. But worlds many light years distant could be vastly different and not even DNA based. Potentially some alien microbes from elsewhere could totally destroy most all surface DNA life on the planet. And likewise microbes from Earth could do so elsewhere. There is a key IF bearing on contamination issues. If life everywhere is generally DNA based, then we have far less to worry about than if alien life is truly alien

I'm a proponent of the panspermia hypothesis that conflicts with the long dominant standard dogma that DNA life began then evolved on Earth. The more I understand as do other scientists, the more the narrative that primitive DNA life started here seems unlikely. Thus expect over 14.6 billion years, primitive life, most likely DNA based has cross pollinated DNA life throughout the Milky Way Galaxy and also across galaxies in our Universe.

Another key issue are the vast astronomical distances between stars. The Voyager spacecraft will take 73,000 years traveling at 17.3 kilometers per second to reach our nearest star Proxima Centauri. The popular scifi notion of warp speed is hyper-warp nonsense, highly unlikely EVER regardless of levels of future science. That does not mean aliens will never visit us because that possibility has only considered ORGANIC life, not potential non-organic life that Earth monkeys scientists have only recently considered given the vast increase in computer science with the potential now for Singularity level machines likely within near centuries. Organic Earth life faces enormous high energy electromagnetic particle dangers beyond Earth, some that cannot be shielded. Thus some scientists including some at NASA now expect any intelligent alien visitors won't look like big-headed ET but rather Cylons because they would be able to survive travel over hundreds to thousands of years to other worlds.

Another issue is I personally suspect is likely true, is Earth may be a zoo for an ancient race of Ultimate Intelligent Entities that have some sort of Prime Directive of non-interference once a planet develops intelligent species with science and technology. That key possibility is also why I hopefully lean towards the possibility that although much in the Bible was not inspired, that Jesus was truly part of a UIE plan and Christian eternal life within electromagnet containers that I live for, may indeed be possible.

This link to a long boring document shows NASA and other scientists, out of sight from media have serious concerns that are being threshed out.

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/25773/chapter/1#ix
 
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"What happens if we find intelligent life out there?"

That's an interesting question, Rob. Well, it has to be somewhere in the universe, doesn't it? 🤔 If the powers that be find it and can't understand or control it, they'll try to imprison or kill it. That's what they do.
 
David777 said:
That BBC link misses some important issues that media and science fiction writers never want to mention. The human biome contains over 10,000 different microbe species. Within our bodies containing 30 trillion cells are like numbers of bacteria and ten times as many viruses. Every large Earth life animal creature has a similar microbe zoo biome. Most astrophysicists would doubt there is much to fear from worlds that might have life within our Sun's solar system because some levels of contamination have likely already occurred at least at primitive microbe levels. But worlds many light years distant could be vastly different and not even DNA based. Potentially some alien microbes from elsewhere could totally destroy most all surface DNA life on the planet. And likewise microbes from Earth could do so elsewhere. There is a key IF bearing on contamination issues. If life everywhere is generally DNA based, then we have far less to worry about than if alien life is truly alien

I'm a proponent of the panspermia hypothesis that conflicts with the long dominant standard dogma that DNA life began then evolved on Earth. The more I understand as do other scientists, the more the narrative that primitive DNA life started here seems unlikely. Thus expect over 14.6 billion years, primitive life, most likely DNA based has cross pollinated DNA life throughout the Milky Way Galaxy and also across galaxies in our Universe.

Another key issue are the vast astronomical distances between stars. The Voyager spacecraft will take 73,000 years traveling at 17.3 kilometers per second to reach our nearest star Proxima Centauri. The popular scifi notion of warp speed is hyper-warp nonsense, highly unlikely EVER regardless of levels of future science. That does not mean aliens will never visit us because that possibility has only considered ORGANIC life, not potential non-organic life that Earth monkeys scientists have only recently considered given the vast increase in computer science with the potential now for Singularity level machines likely within near centuries. Organic Earth life faces enormous high energy electromagnetic particle dangers beyond Earth, some that cannot be shielded. Thus some scientists including some at NASA now expect any intelligent alien visitors won't look like big-headed ET but rather Cylons because they would be able to survive travel over hundreds to thousands of years to other worlds.

Another issue is I personally suspect is likely true, is Earth may be a zoo for an ancient race of Ultimate Intelligent Entities that have some sort of Prime Directive of non-interference once a planet develops intelligent species with science and technology. That key possibility is also why I hopefully lean towards the possibility that although much in the Bible was not inspired, that Jesus was truly part of a UIE plan and Christian eternal life within electromagnet containers that I live for, may indeed be possible.

This link to a long boring document shows NASA and other scientists, out of sight from media have serious concerns that are being threshed out.

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/25773/chapter/1#ix
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I've always suspected WE are the Martians.
 

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