Genesis life 

finding life a second Genesis life that

isn't related to us some else somewhere

else will be will be to begin to

understand how biology can be different

I mean we don't even know if they'd have

the similar biochemistry but on the

other hand you know we're carbon-based

life-forms and carbon which is all over

the universe of course is great at

hooking up with other atoms to make

complex chemistry and since that's what

we are you know they might be

carbon-based that's not crazy we're

having a hard time figuring out what

other ways there might be we're working

on it from the bottom up with synthetic

biology trying to build life in other

ways but I think life elsewhere will

have evolved to be perfectly suited to

its environment

if the environments are similar to ours

then there could in fact be a lot of

similarities

if the environments are extremely

different from those that we enjoy here

on this planet then I think it's

unimaginable I'd love to find out what

we can't imagine in fact as we imagine

the kind of beings we make contact with

they may not be biological beings at all

on earth we are anticipating computers

becoming advanced enough that they may

even deserve the term intelligence in

the next century or so so if we make

contact with a civilization that's

thousands or millions of years more

advanced than we are the intelligence on

the other end of the line may be an

artificial intelligence these

hypothetical forms of life may have

abandoned their biological bodies a long

time ago to create a computer body they

may have the ability to build a quantum

computer with an extraordinary computing

power a super intelligent device with

the same capacity as a conventional

computer that occupies a whole planet

then they may have lost their

consciousness of the self to be absorbed

by a global digital network of minds a

great collective consciousness but in

terms of what they'd be like what they'd

look like nobody can release say except

this probably within a hundred years

we're going to develop Thinking Machines

on earth 

here on earth so I think it's very

likely that if you actually pick up a

signal coming from elsewhere it's not

coming from some sort of biological

being it's coming from the Machine the

search for extraterrestrial intelligence

is not really different from the search

for our own future

the absolute ignorance about the

possible aims of an extraterrestrial

intelligence is what has led some

scientists to voice their misgivings

about announcing our existence to

extraterrestrials at least until we know

their intentions toward us

active SETI is a controversial topic no

less than the cosmologists Stephen

Hawking warned do not transmit to et you

know when he said that in 2010 his

concern was that aliens may invade earth

to strip-mine our planet taking our rare

resources

well Hawking is a genius but he can't

predict the future and so there's no way

he could have told that earth-like

planets are distributed everywhere but

even if there is a danger even if

another civilization can come to earth

it's too late to conceal our existence

any civilization with the ability to

travel between the stars can already

pick up our radio and TV signals that

are leaking off into space there is no

added danger of transmitting signals

through active SETI

in any case considering the data we now

know a first contact may be possible in

a short time it's also possible that some

civilization has already listened to our

messages nevertheless how is it possible

that if there are other civilizations we

haven't yet received any evidence of

their existence this is what is known as

the Fermi paradox the physicist Enrico

Fermi famously asked where are they the

idea was if in fact the universe is

populated with life why haven't they

come here the formulation of that

paradox arose when the physicist Enrico

Fermi was working on the Manhattan

Project whose aim was the development of

the u.s. atomic bomb Fermi's answer to his paradox was that

every advanced civilization develops along with its technology the potential

to exterminate itself as was thought to

be happening at that time the fact that

other extraterrestrial civilizations had

not been found implied for him a tragic

end for Humanity

however there are several possible

solutions to the Fermi paradox they do

exist but they are not communicating

with us they do exist and communicate

but we can't hear them they do exist and

have been here but we weren't they do

exist but most people don't know it yet

they have disappeared

maybe these civilizations have already

Destroyed themselves 

destroyed themselves as a consequence of

a nuclear war or some other cause but we

find even more solutions to the paradox

well there are a lot of answers to the

Fermi paradox you know one is that it's

actually very difficult to travel

between the stars you know even over the

course of long periods of time it takes

a lot of energy it takes a lot of

commitment and anything that you can

gain in terms of information you could

get a lot cheaper simply by sending

radio signals another possible solution

is that we aren't interesting to them if

some civilization were able to come to

the earth from the stars it would have

to be thousands or millions times more

advanced than ours and we may not have

anything interesting to offer them such

a civilization might consider us as

primitive as we consider a simple

beehive would it make any sense for us

to interact with bees and try to make

them understand our advances in

spacecraft missions nuclear energy or

quantum mechanics or maybe there is

colonization and we just don't happen to

see it because it's not nearby or it

isn't very obvious

paradoxically the galaxy could be filled

with intelligent forms of life but we

are so primitive that we have not even

realized it another explanation for the

Fermi paradox is that we may have

already received those signals but we

haven't realised it we haven't perceived

the signals or we haven't been able to

understand or decode them

in this case some strange signals from

outer space have been received their origins are now being investigated and

they have posed serious questions for

scientists the most famous signal that's

been detected came in 1977 it was at

Ohio State University's big ear radio

telescope and in the course of listening

for signals from another civilization

there was this message that was strong

that was spread out over frequency it

looked exactly like the kind of signal

we would want to get from et during his

work on the night shift on July 15th

1977

Jerry R Eamonn professor of the state

university of Ohio and SETI project

volunteer observed the weird

transcription of the radio signal made

by a computer in a section of paper feed

to confirm later that it was the most

intense anomalous signal detected up to

that point by a radio telescope the

signal of unknown origin had a duration

of 72 seconds and reached an intensity

30 times higher than conventional

signals and had come from the

constellation of Sagittarius in fact it

was so astounding that when the

technician was looking at the printout

the next morning he wrote Wow in the

margin and that's become known as the

WoW signal the computer processed the

signals received into a series of

alphanumeric characters it wrote the

sequence 6eq uj5 which has kept the

international scientific community on

edge until today

'man and his team studied the signal in

detail in the end they were able to rule

out that it had been part of any

interference coming from the earth so

during the following month the operators

of the radio telescope tried to

reposition the signal but they didn't

succeed well many times in the decades

since then astronomers have looked at

the same part of the sky to see whether

they can find the WoW signal again

but we've never been able to replicate

it so the key to progress in SETI is to

be able to find a signal that looks as

good as the vowel signal but now to be

able to find it not just once but over

and over and over again today the origin

of that signal is still under

investigation

another signal which provoked important
debates was the radio source sh g b 0 2
+ 1 4 8 discovered in march 2003 by SETI
at home and announced a new scientists
on September 1st 2004 since said he at
home started more than 5 billion signals
have been detected that because of their
mathematical profile or their lack of
repetition in time have been ruled out
among all of them the candidate sh gb 0
2 + 1 for a was one of the very few that
was confirmed again and the only one to
maintain a high statistical chance of
being intelligent and of
extraterrestrial origin
another relevant signal was the one
observed by the Australian astronomer
reg Burt bottle a SETI collaborator who
found a strange signal close to what
years later would be confirmed by NASA
as the first habitable planet the glycin
581 just 20 light-years away
on the NASA website in the section
astrology picture of the day we found an
explanation for the signal no one knows
for sure what caused this signal there
is a slight possibility that it just
might originate from an extraterrestrial
intelligence many unusual signals from
space remain unidentified
the study of signals possibly emitted by
an extraterrestrial intelligence as a
delicate matter that requires a great
deal of confirmation first if you think
you have a signal from an
extraterrestrial make sure check check
with colleagues double-check your data
and then secondly if you're really
pretty sure you found it tell the whole
world
despite countless conjectures about a
possible contact or some evidence that
is being hidden SETI states that we
haven't yet received a confirmed signal
and makes it clear that as far as SETI
is concerned it wouldn't be a piece of
information to hide a lot of people in
this country figured that the federal
government would cover it all up because
the public couldn't handle the news well
we know that isn't true because we had
false alarms and what actually happens
is the media are very interested the
newspapers the radio shows TV shows they
call you up right away if you get any 

kind of interesting signal


kind of interesting signal so according
to the SETI protocol the day they
confirm the first signal indicative of
extraterrestrial intelligence they will
make the news known worldwide a fact
that considering technological advances
may occur in a short time seth shostack
declared before the House Science
Committee of the American Congress that
in a couple of decades we will have
found evidence of its existence the
chances of finding it I think are good
and if that happens it will happen in
the next 20 years depending on the
financing there are sort of guesses as
to how many societies might be out there
broadcasting and those guesses run from
maybe 10,000 to a million
well if then the correct number is any
where in that range then we should find
something within a few decades so you
know this is not like building
cathedrals in the Middle Ages this is
something that's gonna work within one
generation if it's going to work at all
if I had to bet when we will find
intelligence beyond earth I'd say in the
next 20 years and it's simply because
technology is advancing all the time
SETI success depends on computing power
what will happen from then on what will
occur when we receive a signal and it is
confirmed as extraterrestrial how would
that affect our lives our priorities our
conception of the world and our own
identity as humankind prepared so what
happens if we find a signal if we find
evidence that they're out there you know
people will still go to work the next
day or they're in school they'll still
go to school they won't divorce their
spouses there won't be civil unrest they
won't be rioting in the streets it's
just that we will know something really
important that as wonderful as Earth is
as wonderful as our species is we're not
the only kids on the block and I think
it's good to know that if it's true in
January 2010 the Royal Society held a
conference entitled the detection of
extraterrestrial life and the
consequences for science and society the
introduction of the conference was as
follows astronomers are able now to
detect planets where life may exist and the living generation could see the
signature of extraterrestrial life being
detected should it turn out that we are
not alone in the universe people
fundamentally affect how humanity
understands itself and we need to be
prepared for the consequences
over the long term if you actually did
get a message and could understand it of
course that could be very transformative
imagine you know giving I don't know
Neanderthals to keep the keys to your
local library say hey you might want to
read some of this stuff I mean that
would change everything for them so
there is that potential although I think
it's a fairly far-fetched idea concerned
that a discovery could be closed
humankind has slowly started to prepare
itself to establish a protocol procedure
neither a country nor a collective of
people would be represented but all of
humankind there's a protocol called the
declaration of principles concerning
activities following the detection of
extraterrestrial intelligence and this
provides guidelines about what do we do
next
the most fundamental issue raised in
this protocol is before there is a reply
there should be broad-based global
discussion that if we are to speak to
another civilization if we are to send a
response it should be a response that
has gathered global input this wasn't
transmitted to the SETI Institute or to
any other organization the message was
transmitted to earth it belongs to the
whole earth it should be shared widely
most scientists agree that a finding
like this would alter and transform the
status quo in many ways what would be
its effect on our society our science
our technology or our religion so for me
detecting another civilization is a way
of coming to a better understanding of
who we are as human beings it would mean
a chance to see whether the ways of
knowing that we've developed here on
earth our math our science our ways of
expressing ourselves our music our art
are they somehow tapping into something
that goes beyond earth or are they
uniquely ours the discovery would be on
the same level as those of Copernicus 

somebody else figured


and Darwin and as of the transforming
events in human history however it will
be decades before people get used to the
idea that we are not alone in the
universe and it's real meaning becomes
deeply ingrained has occurred with the
hel eccentric cosmology and biological
evolution it's likely that our first
contact with an extraterrestrial
civilization will happen when the Allen
telescope array detects a message that
confirms at last the existence of
extraterrestrial intelligent life or
when one of the people connected to the
SETI at home project announces that his
computer has decoded some of the signals
of the Arecibo telescope then our first
contact will be a uni-directional
conversation we might capture some
intelligent message by chance but it
could take decades or centuries before
our answer gets to them given the huge
distances of the universe let me tell
you what my
my hope for the
impact of the detection of a distant
technology would be what I hope is that
we can make it understood to the people
on this planet that the only way that
contact happened was because on average
technological civilizations have a long
lifetime we're sitting here is a very
young technology and we literally do not
know whether it's possible to grow old
to be able to be wise enough to manage
our population to Shepherd our planet to
go forward into a long future long in
cosmic times but if we find someone else
we know the answer to that question we
get a proof of existence it's possible
to grow
somebody else figured out how to do it
and I would hope that that would
motivate us to find solutions to the
problems that we face today we know that
somebody else made it through this
bottleneck
technological adolescence I'd hope it
would motivate us to find answers for
ourselves today we know that the first
contact may occur in not too a long time
it's not easy to figure out what will
happen in this first communication if it
will be something positive or harmful to
human beings what is clear is that it will be a turning point in the life of the human
species
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