Are we prepared for a possible encounter with an extraterrestrial civilization that may have much more advanced technology than we do?
It is possible that we are being watched by an extraterrestrial civilization that may have much more advanced technology than we do. We humans have been conducting radio listening for several decades to the sounds coming from various corners of the Universe, mainly the closest constellations to our solar system containing other suns and various planetary systems. However, to date, we have not been able to make any contact or receive messages, signals, sounds from our side, which would confirm the existence of another civilization beyond our earthly one. Perhaps more perfect photographs taken with the James Webb Space Telescope will make it possible to diagnose the chemical composition (elements and organic chemical compounds or analogs) that would suggest the existence of other life forms on exoplanets located in other planetary systems, in other constellations, in other galaxies. However, it cannot be ruled out that the first in this regard will be representatives of other technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations created by other intelligent life forms. Perhaps we are being watched by spacecraft or courts sent from distant exoplanets by other intelligent life forms that have built more technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, i.e. having much more advanced space technology, artificial intelligence technology, autonomous robots equipped with artificial intelligence. Specific risks of threats from this to our civilization are not excluded. Some of these risks have been depicted in various science fiction films.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of researchers and scientists:
Are we prepared for a possible encounter with an extraterrestrial civilization that may have much more advanced technology than we do?
What is your opinion on this issue?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Absolutely no need to! Even if there was life harboring planets in the closest Alpha Centauri system, 4.2 LYS away (we know for sure, there is none), no living creature could possibly make a journey from there to us even travelling at a fraction of the speed of light !
All these talks of estraterrestrials coming to invade us, are boogeyman stories of ”Le Bonhomme Sept Heures” used by parents to pacify the children in “New France” (Quebéc) in the old days. Modern tales are manufactured with the help of highly promoted and make-belief "great scientists”, deliberately nurtured by the representatives of monopoly capitalism; to pacify the subjugated humanity that they rule over; so that nobody questions their authority! And what is interesting to note is that these tales of UFO, extraterrestrials etc.; become more prevalent during the periodic crisis of monopoly capitalism!
Please see the following RG forum:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_Scientific_Is_Modern_Official_Theoretical_Science_of_Nature_and_Man
Please Note: If this discussion is meant to be for some amusing chat; then this is a very different issue!
Abdul Malek
If they are high advanced like type-3 [ singularity ] Civilization then probability of encounter with them is high. [Not sure , it's just my opinion ]
Definitely it is possible for encounter with extraterrestrial life.
Dear Dariusz Prokopowicz: In my opinion, we will be prepared when we decipher the origins of speech and thought in our own human community on Earth. Best regards, Szaniszlo Berczi
Ritik Bhardwaj : I hope I made a scientific statement in my comment above. In my view science cannot be built on wishful thinking, personal or group opinion or on pure thought and imagination alone! The theories of physics from Newton to Einstein (based on which the various opinions about the extraterrestrial world are made) are wrong or false! So, any conclusion or opinion based on these theories are necessarily, not scientific! Please see the link I cited in my comment above.
From a materialist dialectical perspective, the universe is Infinite, Eternal and Ever-Changing. Life is an intrinsic property (like other properties) of matter. If life could evolve in a suitable planet like earth; there is no reason why it cannot evolve in similar other planets in the universe. Electromagnetic (EM) radiation is the only way we are aware of other celestial objects in the universe. So it is only though EM (radio) signals we can possibly be aware of the existence of other human civilizations in the universe!
Dialectical materialist Frederick Engels wrote the following at a time when only the Milky-Way galaxy was known to man: “… however many millions of suns and earths may arise and pass away, however long it may last before the conditions for organic life develop, however innumerable the organic beings that have to arise and pass away before animals with a brain capable of thought are developed from their midst, and for a short span of time find conditions suitable for life, only to be exterminated later without mercy, we have the certainty that matter remains eternally the same in all its transformations, that none of its attributes can ever be lost, and therefore also, that with the same iron necessity that it will exterminate on the earth its highest creation, the thinking mind, it must somewhere else and at another time again produce it.” F. Engels, “Dialectics of Nature”.
One thing Darius, them having much more advanced technology than we do?
May not be necessarily. May be better equipped than us for their convenience/suitability.
Creation happens to be well engage into own system of suitability. Insects are well equipped and mastered in their process of, for example incubation. Lizards are on the spot, efficient of self mechanism in producing and hibernation, so forth on. Do I sound like religious? Surely I am.
On the reverse they may think like as you saying about them, about us?
Fatema
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