Sci/Tech Life in outer space? Japan astronomers hunt aliens

[The Helper]

TOKYO: Japan's biggest astronomical observatories are teaming up for an unprecedented quest to find out whether there is life in outer space.

The project, led by Japanese astronomers, will bring together a dozen or more observatories from all over the country to study one star that researchers see as a potential home to an extraterrestrial civilization.

"Everyone wonders at least once in their lifetime whether space is infinite and whether aliens really do exist," said Shinya Narusawa, chief researcher at Nishi-Harima Astronomical Observatory in western Japan.

The search for aliens and UFOs is not new to Japan. Last year, unidentified flying objects grabbed the headlines after a lawmaker submitted a question to the cabinet on whether the country had confirmed any cases of their existence. The government's answer: no.

Life in outer space? Japan astronomers hunt aliens

Japan's biggest astronomical observatories are teaming up for an unprecedented quest to find out whether there is life in outer space.

www.reuters.com

 

[Sim]

If we ever find intelligent life, I bet they will attack us once they find us.

 

[Miz]

If we ever find intelligent life, I bet they will attack us once they find us.

War of the Worlds

 

[FireCat]

Maybe they already did found us, Daxtreme

they watching you

 

[esb]

I think it would be the other way around. We will attack them first.

 

[FireCat]

I think it would be the other way around. We will attack them first.

Why always we need to attack.they can be friendly ?
I belive they could attack us allready if they wanted
and yea if they exists.
But something must be out there we can't be alone.

 

[SFilip]

> they can be friendly ?
But what if they aren't? We can't take that chance. Shoot first, wait 'till it's dead, then ask questions - that policy never failed us so far.

 

[FireCat]

> they can be friendly ?
But what if they aren't? We can't take that chance. Shoot first, wait 'till it's dead, then ask questions - that policy never failed us so far.

no one know it for sure if they aren't.
well if we start shoot them, then it be our fault if it be a war right?
later we can't blame the aliens if they hit us back when they only wanted say etc. hey to us.

so what policy is right really, shoot and ask later. or try and see if they are
friendly.

 

[TheDamien]

No doubt any sufficiently advanced species would be eager to harvest and study us.

 

[esb]

It's human nature to kill anything the moves.
Just as it's a new species (oh wow!), I'm sure scientist and the other guys would want to 'study'.
Study means to open up, enslave a few if possibilty to study habits, etc. and so on. Like animals.

UNLESS this other alien race can communicate, it's either we kill them, or they kill us.

 

[FireCat]

how sure you know they want kill us ?
in the videos well, they always want kill us, but in real no one know.
But sure some aliens think like us, they want study us, like some of
us want study them..

oh this aliens ...

 

[Lobster]

if they want to study us, the solution is to send in dead bodies
(frozen)
also for live specimen: volunteers.

 

[Seb!]

If they're intelligent:

1. They are peaceful (as eventually, intelligence leads to peace) and they do not attack, but simply want to help us.

2. They harvest us, as we harvest animals. This would be completely justified, just as our harvesting of animals is justified because of the difference in intelligence.

 

[esb]

Actually, if they were intellegent, why not take over the weak?

Intellegence leads to technology. Technology equals anything but peace.

Harvesting could be justified, but it wouldn't be peace.
"Sell us j00r oilz or we pwnz0rs j00!"

 

[Turnip]

The animals we harvest aren't intelligent enough to rebel or do anything remotely smart. We, however, have nukes. Lots of nukes. If they began to harvest us, we would rebel or declare war.

 

[Seb!]

If they had any level of intelligence, we'd get pwnd.

 

[Atreyu]

Aliens have cool Ships which can turn us all to dust. They might have shields protecting them. If we either hunt them first, we don't have the technology yet to go to outer space with hundreds of ships. While they can. We just have to pray that they're friendly.

If the japanese finds them, they find us, Us will be Doomed/Friends.

 

[esb]

Well according to the movies, they can control us at will pretty much.

But think into this.
Let's ignore the God theory (God created us in 7 days, etc.) and lets go to Big Bang (Scientifically).
Universe is created when "something/nothing" explodes. We evolve, etc. etc.
Wouldn't they be at the same evolutionary stages than us? And not have like ... 10,000 year tech ahead of us?

 

[TheDamien]

The animals we harvest aren't intelligent enough to rebel or do anything remotely smart. We, however, have nukes. Lots of nukes. If they began to harvest us, we would rebel or declare war.

Do you have any idea how primitive our technology would be compared to theirs?

Wouldn't they be at the same evolutionary stages than us? And not have like ... 10,000 year tech ahead of us?

Not necessarily. Stars, planets, lifeforms etc don't need to pop into existence at the same time.

 

[Lunarios]

The animals we harvest aren't intelligent enough to rebel or do anything remotely smart. We, however, have nukes. Lots of nukes. If they began to harvest us, we would rebel or declare war.

And, if not destroy all, part, or none of them, at least we would blow ourselves up in a tremendous middle finger salute.

Simple rule of thumb:

If they find us, they are probably more advanced.

If we find them, we are probably more advanced.

If we find each other, it could be either.

Now, there is a case where the two species will be evenly matched. In other words, it is either too expensive to have a war, or neither species has any major advances in technology.