The_Wayward_Admiral
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The_Real_Slim_Shady
Atrox drew this awesome image of the Keldori!
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Post by The_Wayward_Admiral on Nov 20, 2015 5:28:52 GMT
Have any of you seen Vox's video "The 116 things NASA wants aliens to see"? I've seen it three times and literally cried the first two. It shows all of the images encoded in the Voyager golden records set to that song playing behind Carl Sagan's voice in the original Cosmos. Anyway, I just thought maybe we could have a discussion about what it would be like to find something like that from someone else, or what we might look like to someone who finds ours.
The committee specifically avoided negative images, showcasing only the best humanity has to offer. To me that's a little disingenuous, but hopefully over the next 40,000 years (when Voyager I will be closer to another planet that our sun) we will iron out some of the bugs, or get used to calling them features. Anyway, there's something comforting to know that long after our current civilization has run its course, and the hyper-intelligent octopi have risen up against us, there will still be something familiar hanging around out in the interplanetary void. A somewhat permanent testament to the ingenuity of a bunch of savannah apes who looked to the stars. Jeez this became a PBS special very fast.
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The_Wayward_Admiral
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The_Real_Slim_Shady
Atrox drew this awesome image of the Keldori!
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Post by The_Wayward_Admiral on Nov 24, 2015 1:21:43 GMT
Update: "that song playing behind Carl Saga" is titled "Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground".
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Post by Rowdy on Nov 24, 2015 16:33:47 GMT
I, for one, would welcome our new hyper-intelligent octopi overlords. And on a serious note: while it would, indeed, be disingenuous to paint humanity as a species with little, if any flaws, I feel it was a good idea as opposed to laying it all out on the table. I'd think of it sort of like the "honeymoon phase" of a relationship, since those usually start off with ideals that would later break down into reality. So basically, I think any other civilizations would grow intrigued by us at first, then make their decision depending on what humanity is like by the time we're "discovered" by them (or vice versa). If humanity found an alien probe though, I can only hope that wouldn't throw the world into a frenzy, at least. As a best possible outcome, this would maybe allow for a temporary Pax Mundi or world peace that would cause a widespread Industrial Revolution that would advance technology by a few decades, assuming we want to visit said civilization.
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Post by tjwhale on Nov 25, 2015 10:22:54 GMT
There's probably a nice sci-fi short story in there somewhere.
We find an alien probe of the same type that makes the alien civ look amazing. We use the instructions to contact them. They enslave us, because of course they edited out the bad parts of their civ!
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Post by Rowdy on Nov 26, 2015 16:02:03 GMT
That is almost literally the premise of this whole movie, 10/10 would recommend.
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Post by tjwhale on Nov 26, 2015 16:28:49 GMT
Yeah not a bad movie.
"Why build one when you can have two at twice the price?"
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