Friday, November 18, 2011

Royal Society preparesfor alien contact


The British Royal Society wants to set up a coordinating body for "extraterrestrial affairs." Which should also clarify who is authorized to speak for Earth. Science fiction is not the profession, teeming with the scientists of the venerable British Royal Society. So well is the latest advance meant quite seriously, with which the company was now talking about himself: Simon Conway Morris, Cambridge professor asks, in a special issue of the journal "Philosophical Transactions" of the Society, the United Nations should finally have a focal point for Setting up "extraterrestrial affairs", which should prepare for the possibility of an unexpected contact of people with extraterrestrial beings. Also, it was necessary, appropriate mitigation strategies to entwickeln.Wohl true. A 350 year old company are to such far-reaching thoughts. Although initial contact us träfe not totally unprepared. For example, the International Astronomers Union developed an accurate procedure for how to proceed is when an obviously artificial signal is received from distant worlds in a terrestrial telescope, who to inform when the group meets ■ Avoid installation "Contact," a loose association of astrophysicists, writers, philosophers and other experts annually on a NASA site near San Francisco to have for emergencies durchexerziert at least a few mind games. In Arecibo, Puerto Rico, the SETI researchers listen ("Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence") Day and night the sky ab.Doch in the question of who has jurisdiction in contacting to speak for the earth to catch the big question mark. Also, no one knows whether we extend the hand of a visit (if he even has one for the rich) or to take the same defensive posture. Who can see the movie "Mars Attacks", knows how quickly a seemingly friendly welcome ceremony culminate in a disaster.
The problem: Every alien who mastered all the way to us, would be technically superior to us hands down.  See also : http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/10/earth-close-encounter-aliens-extraterrestrials


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