An Oxford faculty member from the Future of Humanity Institute has warned that anew proposed message to aliensmight be a frightening idea for a mintage that design to survive .
in the beginning this calendar month , a projection led by Jonathan Jiang from NASA ’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology come up with a newfangled message to send to space , in an endeavour to make contact with other civilizations .
“ The propose message include canonic mathematical and physical construct to establish a universal mean value of communication followed by entropy on the biochemical composition of life on Earth , the Solar System ’s time - stamped position in the milklike Way relative to love globular clusters , as well as digitized picture of the Solar System , and Earth ’s surface , ” theArxiv report read .
“ The message conclude with digitized image of the human contour , along with an invitation for any receiving intelligences to respond . "
The so - called " Beacon in the Galaxy " , according to Dr Anders Sandberg of Oxford University ’s Future of Humanity Institute and anyone who has read about darker solutions to theFermi Paradox , might not be such a neat idea for humans .
“ The simple mind would be that either aliens might contact us and have good news or be helpful or they are dangerous . You could say , well , the risk equation , if something threaten the species that would weigh more heavily than the good news , " Sandbergtold Radio 4 ’s Today Programme .
“ And many the great unwashed would say , of course , well we are a archaic untried species and we ’ve get a line in earth ’s history if we have a civilization that is powerful encounters a more archaic society that has commonly not turned out so well for the primitive gild . "
“ That ’s a bit simplistic but there are ground to be concerned that maybe we should n’t just be get off out messages willy nilly . ”
Even if most species are harmless , concord toThe Dark Forest Theory , it would only take one advanced species gain a rational conclusion to cause an awful lot of space destruction . The piece of venture on the Fermi Paradox was outlined in Liu Cixin ’s sci - fi novelThe Dark Forest , inconversationsbetween a sociology prof and former astronomer and the mother of their dead friend .
The professor tell that living will strive to stay alive , and there isno agency of knowing the intentions of other exotic species . Some could be good-hearted , some could be hostile . Even if the lifespan out there is n’t unfriendly , it will still be expanding in a universe with circumscribed resources , increasing the likelihood of conflict with others who call for those same resources .
Given these factors , the record book suggests , all intelligent living is leave behind with the safest course of study of action : to pass over out any other lifeforms before they can do the same to them .
The squad behind Beacon in the Galaxy , of form , does not believe that any alien tidings which finds the message will be unfriendly .
" Logic suggests a species which has achieve sufficient complexity to achieve communication through the world would also very likely have attainedhigh levels of cooperation amongst themselves , " they save in their paper . " And thus will hump the grandness of peace and quislingism . "
