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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Space => Topic started by: Kamaji on January 16, 2023, 11:23:56 pm
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Space Probes Between Humans, Extraterrestrials Will Have Extraordinary Disparity That We Couldn't Reverse-Engineer
Caleb White
Jan 15, 2023
Space probes from extraterrestrial beings will reportedly arrive in reverse to the human civilization due to technological disparity.
Communication With Extraterrestrial Civilization (ETC) Can Be Daunting
A space probe from ETC that will arrive in the Solar System where they will detect us and send a probe to introduce themselves to learn more about it will be a daunting task. It could even change the civilization's trajectory, Science Alert reported.
It will reportedly take centuries and generations of humans will live and die, and everything from that probe will sit in a museum.
Imagine the sensors detect another probe but are less advanced than the previous one. Humans will be surprised to receive, retrieve and study it, only to find out it's not as advanced than the previous one and contains older information than the first one. It has less advanced technology and will be more primitive.
Graeme Smith, a professor and astronomer at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, said it would likely be the case. He published a paper in the International Journal of Astrobiology titled "On the first probe to transit between two interstellar civilizations," pointing out that sending probes between two extreme distances could mean the first one received wouldn't be the first one sent. According to Smith, the first one to arrive is likely the last one sent as it is likely equipped with more advanced capability, with faster speed, suggesting that the messages would be received in reverse order.
He added that the more distant the site from which an ETC launches probes, the greater would be the technology gap between a first encounter probe and terrestrial technology.
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Source: https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/41848/20230115/space-probes-between-humans-extraterrestrials-will-extraordinary-disparity-couldnt-reverse.htm
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It could be that advances in technology had their later probes arriving first...
Or maybe their space program was taken over by their equivalent of Democrats