Comments on: The debate over "Active SETI" http://futurismic.com/2008/01/03/the-debate-over-active-seti/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anonymous http://futurismic.com/2008/01/03/the-debate-over-active-seti/comment-page-1/#comment-143831 Anonymous Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:10:17 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2008/01/03/the-debate-over-active-seti/#comment-143831 By the way, if this is really the infamous Alexander Zaitsev, let me say that you, dear Sir, are a dangerous fool. By the way, if this is really the infamous Alexander Zaitsev, let me say that you, dear Sir, are a dangerous fool.

]]> By: Anonymous http://futurismic.com/2008/01/03/the-debate-over-active-seti/comment-page-1/#comment-143821 Anonymous Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:05:39 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2008/01/03/the-debate-over-active-seti/#comment-143821 Kouki, these aliens you mention could also be in a galactic culinary union, eating each other alive for mutual benefit but not admit us because we have not made more of this idiotic SETI BS. Anyway, I could go on, but your speculations are completely unscientific. Kouki, these aliens you mention could also be in a galactic culinary union, eating each other alive for mutual benefit but not admit us because we have not made more of this idiotic SETI BS. Anyway, I could go on, but your speculations are completely unscientific.

]]> By: Kouki from Japan http://futurismic.com/2008/01/03/the-debate-over-active-seti/comment-page-1/#comment-17544 Kouki from Japan Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:55:18 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2008/01/03/the-debate-over-active-seti/#comment-17544 The distance for aliens to travel, just to start a war would be very counter-productive. Oil, it's taken a year and five days for someone to say this but, it could also be the Bystander Effect. Aliens could already be in a galactic union think-tank, helping each other for mutual benefit but not admit us because we have not made our voice heard/voted by speaking out, for an admission to join. The distance for aliens to travel, just to start a war would be very counter-productive. Oil, it’s taken a year and five days for someone to say this but, it could also be the Bystander Effect. Aliens could already be in a galactic union think-tank, helping each other for mutual benefit but not admit us because we have not made our voice heard/voted by speaking out, for an admission to join.

]]> By: Oli http://futurismic.com/2008/01/03/the-debate-over-active-seti/comment-page-1/#comment-11450 Oli Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:01:14 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2008/01/03/the-debate-over-active-seti/#comment-11450 >In fact, David Brin pointed out years ago (in this paper >on Xenology: check out the section called “The Great >Silence”) that one theory (that originated within >science fiction) for why we don’t hear signals from >other civilizations is that something hunts down and >destroys anybody that start broadcasting. We and all other civilizations don’t hear signals from other civilizations because all other civilizations have Brin-like persons, who pointed out that we and other civilization don’t hear signals from because of something hunts down and destroys anybody that start broadcasting... >In fact, David Brin pointed out years ago (in this paper
>on Xenology: check out the section called “The Great
>Silence”) that one theory (that originated within
>science fiction) for why we don’t hear signals from
>other civilizations is that something hunts down and
>destroys anybody that start broadcasting.

We and all other civilizations don’t hear signals from other civilizations because all other civilizations have Brin-like persons, who pointed out that we and other civilization don’t hear signals from because of something hunts down and destroys anybody that start broadcasting…

]]> By: Edward Willett http://futurismic.com/2008/01/03/the-debate-over-active-seti/comment-page-1/#comment-11380 Edward Willett Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:45:41 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2008/01/03/the-debate-over-active-seti/#comment-11380 In his paper, David Brin mentions Fred Saberhagen's "Berserker novels, and work by Gregory Benford that he doesn't give a title for. Remember Brin's paper is from 1983, though, so anything he references is more than 25 years old at this point. In his paper, David Brin mentions Fred Saberhagen’s “Berserker novels, and work by Gregory Benford that he doesn’t give a title for. Remember Brin’s paper is from 1983, though, so anything he references is more than 25 years old at this point.

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