Thread: Pale Blue Dot - бледная, синяя точка - по-русски перевод.

I think the SETI and METI are the legacy of the analog communication of the 60-s and 70-s and are not relevant today. I think, if we want to look for the other civilizations, we should get some info from them first, and only then make a decision of whether to reveal ourselves or to stay in the shade. So, if we'd had a computer program which could penetrate another civilization's computers by masking itself as the noise, detect what kind of elementary programming operations the computers use, gather information and send it back, that would be much more useful and safe.

That makes a lot of sense, Crocodile. I would tend to agree with you. I think, however, that we have already shouted enough times to alert any saber-toothed aliens in the universe to our presence. All of those messages we sent are out there already. We cannot retract them.

Do you think maybe we have already doomed ourselves?

Originally Posted by Deborski

That makes a lot of sense, Crocodile. I would tend to agree with you. I think, however, that we have already shouted enough times to alert any saber-toothed aliens in the universe to our presence. All of those messages we sent are out there already. We cannot retract them.

Do you think maybe we have already doomed ourselves?

I think we've done a lot of not-so-smart stuff. I think we should at least start moving into the right direction, stop shouting and stop letting 'the noise' from the outer space enter freely into our computers, stop intensively process it the same way each year, putting more processing power into it every day (and being proud of it).

According to BOINC (Boinc all Project Stats) the SETI@HOME is processing 1,683.399 TeraFLOPS taking up more than 40% of all hosts. That is terrible. It is either useless (if there are no aliens) or very dangerous (if there are). BOINC has much more useful projects to participate in.