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What happens when humans launch Earth messages deep into the universe and are intercepted halfway by an alien civilization?

The Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe

By Cecilia P AshfordPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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In such a vast universe, besides our humans on Earth, are there other extraterrestrial beings?

So far, we humans can observe the scope of the universe is to the Earth as a spherical star.

46.5 billion light years as the radius of such a range, but for the entire universe, this is only the tip of an iceberg, why would say so?

Because according to astronomers observing the phenomenon of cosmic redshift found that the universe is expanding outward at a very fast rate.

And the farther away from our planet, the faster the expansion rate.

The universe has been born for 13.8 billion years so far, and it is unrealistic to say that only intelligent life exists on our planet in the entire universe.

Wouldn't that be too much of a waste of space resources?

On May 27, 2021, the Chinese Academy of Sciences released this news.

They successfully intercepted a Cygnus signal about 10,000 years ago from now through the High Altitude Cosmic Ray Observatory.

Cygnus is about 14 million light-years away from our Earth.

What does such a message mean? There is most speculation that it most likely means that there are worlds beyond our Earth. There exists intelligent life of other higher civilizations.

As early as 1995, humans have already begun to explore the planets.

So far, scientists have discovered about 4,100 exoplanets in our solar system.

And there are many second planets, such as Kepler 452b and Kepler 22b, which we have mentioned before.

In the 1950s, the famous astronomer Enrico Fermi published the Fermi paradox.

He believed that in the entire universe there must not only be intelligent life on this planet Earth but there must also exist other higher civilizations.

But with our current technology, we are completely unable to detect this higher intelligent life.

So think about it, if there are aliens, why do they not come to visit us on Earth until now?

In 1983, an extraterrestrial civilization research organization called Seti, using optical telescopes and other advanced instruments for detecting the universe received signals from various electromagnetic waves in the universe.

After analyzing them, they finally compiled these signals into a list of messages that these possible civilizations in the universe wanted to express to us on Earth.

In this way, they tried to prove the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations.

In the 1960s the famous astronomer Drake used his own speculated Drake's formula to project the number of possible extraterrestrial civilizations in the galaxy.

The final result he gave was that in just one galaxy like the Milky Way, there are at least 10,000 or more civilizations in existence.

Stephen Hawking also stressed many times when he was alive that we humans should never try to contact aliens, let alone send signals to aliens with information about us humans on Earth.

But the reality is that many scientists disagree with Hawking's view.

In 1974 astronomers sent an electromagnetic signal with detailed information about humans to the M13 globular cluster, which is about 25,000 light years away from our planet.

This signal recorded the exact location of our planet in the galactic solar system and also recorded a variety of information about our planet's human population.

Including ethnographic language, etc.

Imagine if this information is intercepted by alien beings who are more civilized than us, then it will bring us an incalculable disaster.

Because if there is an extraterrestrial civilization in the universe, it is very likely that the organization of this extraterrestrial civilization is different from the thinking of our human beings on earth.

We take the Earth humans to do a comparison, in a different geographical location of the race, culture, language, ideas are not integrated, let alone is thousands of millions of light years away from us another intelligent life it.

According to the three views of our Earth humans to imagine things, it is likely that we think is right, but the aliens are the opposite of our views. It is also possible that they take the thrill of killing against human nature as a form of entertainment.

It is like the law of the dark forest mentioned in the three bodies. We are in such a dark universe.

This universe is like a dark forest, many civilizations exist, and each civilization does not know where the other is located.

Once another civilization is found, then the only thing you can do to ensure your safety is to destroy each other.

The cultures of two countries on Earth are not likely to merge, so naturally, it is difficult for alien civilizations and our human civilization on Earth to merge.

Of course, some scientists believe that if there is an alien civilization, then they may have received signals from our planet a hundred years ago, but they are just not interested in our Earth humans.

Or maybe their level of civilization is much higher than the level of civilization of our Earth humans, due to the constraints of the laws of the universe, so their higher civilization organizations will not threaten our lower civilization organizations.

If they encounter a civilization organization that is about the same level as our Earth humans, then they will come to Earth to invade the Earth.

It is only to compete for the resources of the Earth or other racial aggression, then we think about the most critical question, Do we humans will have the ability to fight against them?

The probability is that we can not fight against it.

Because a civilization can even reach the other side of the planet, while the other side of the planet can not reach its planet, then it is clear that the other side of the degree of technology must be lower than the degree of technology and civilization of their planet.

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