Hello from the other side: Scientists to start sending messages into universe in hopes of getting a reply from aliens
METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) International has announced plans to start sending signals into space for extra terrestrials starting in 2018 [CN]
国际主动搜寻地外文明计划宣布了计划,自2018年起开始发送信号到外星球
'If we want to start an exchange over the course of many generations, we want to learn and share information,' said president of METI Douglas Vakoch [CN]
如果我们想开始一项交流,超越很多代人的交流。我们需要学习和分享信息。Douglas Vakoch主动搜寻地外文明计划主席如是说。
Scientists are now working on the best way to say 'hello' [CN]
科学家正尽最大努力来(向外太空)打招呼。
Some are against the plan, including Stephen Hawking [CN]
有些人反对这个计划。包括史蒂芬·霍金。
'If aliens visit us, the outcome could be much like when Columbus landed in America,' Hawking has said in the past
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如果外星人拜访我们,结果很可能会像哥伦布发现美洲新大陆一样。霍金过去这么说过。
METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) International has announced plans to start sending signals into space for extra terrestrials starting in 2018[CN]
搜寻外星智慧生命国际组织宣布了计划,开始发送信号到太空,自2018年起寻找外星生物。
'If we want to start an exchange over the course of many generations, we want to learn and share information,' said president of METI Douglas Vakoch[CN]
如果我们想开始一项交流,超越很多代人的交流。我们需要学习和分享信息。Douglas Vakoch主动搜寻地外文明计划主席如是说。
A team of scientists is preparing to phone ET's home.[CN]
一组科学家正准备着打电话到外星人的家里。
The San Francisco-based non-profit organization METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) International has announced plans to start sending signals into space for extra terrestrials starting in 2018, rather than waiting for them to contact Earth.[CN]
这个建于旧金山的非营利组织- 寻找天外智慧生物国际组织宣布了计划,开始发送信号到太空,自2018年起寻找外星生物。而不是坐等他们来联系地球人。
It is a plan that is receiving mixed reviews however, with some leading minds of the opinion that we should not try and seek out alien life but rather hide from them out of fear that could want to conquer the planet.[CN]
几个计划收到了很多不同的观点,有一些领军人物提出我们不该尝试去寻找外星生物,以此没有畏惧的避免他们,他们可能有野心征服地球。
'If we want to start an exchange over the course of many generations, we want to learn and share information,' said Douglas Vakoch, the president of METI.[CN]
如果我们想开始一项交流,超越很多代人的交流。我们需要学习和分享信息。Douglas Vakoch主动搜寻地外文明计划主席如是说。
Now it is just a question of figuring out the best way to greet any extra terrestrials who might receive this message.
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现如今,该是考虑如何跟外星生物好好打个招呼了,他们有可能收到这个信息。
Vakoch spoke of the need to send more complex signals out into the universe earlier this year in an interview with Forbes.
'It's too late to conceal ourselves in the universe, so we should decide how we want to represent ourselves,' said Vakoch.
'Extraterrestrials may be waiting for a clear indication from us that we're ready to start talking.'
METI plans to send their first radio transmission by the end of 2018, with an emphasis on messages that reveal basic mathematical and scientific concepts.
'It would be ideal to use a powerful transmitter like those used for planetary radar studies, such as Arecibo Observatory,' said Vakoch.
A number of such signals have already been sent, with perhaps the most famous being fired out by the Arecibo radio telescope in 1974.
Its binary digits reveals some details about our solar system, humans species and Earth's biochemistry.
Vakoch says that we should include an instruction manual of sorts so that aliens can decode are messages more easily.
''There are a lot of hidden assumptions embedded in the ways we portray three-dimensional objects on two-dimensional surfaces,' said Vakoch.
'Even if aliens use pictures, they may use a different set of conventions to map solid objects onto flat surfaces.'
Some scientists, however, believe we should refrain from contacting aliens at all in case they are hostile.
Professor Stephen Hawking believes if aliens discovered Earth, they are likely to want to conquer and colonize the planet.
'If
aliens visit us, the outcome could be much like when Columbus landed in
America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans,' he said
in an interview.
Strange to me how people will believe in Aliens, (when we have zero evidence of this) yet totally reject the idea of God or a higher power.[CN]
很奇怪,居然有人相信有外星人这回事(我们根本就没有证据啊),却不去相信上帝或者更高能力的东西。
With aliens you just have to yap about possibilities and your imagination, with god (through religeon) you gotta do alot of standing about in cold buildings listening to long lectures and singing songs that you dont know and have to guess how long to linger on syllables[CN]
对于外星人,你就嚷嚷是有可能的。你的想象力,关于上帝(宗教上的),你还是得多了解冷粘成形,听听时间长的讲座和听你不懂的歌,猜猜音节吧
I believe there is a possibility that there MAY be life on other planets or in a different universe. I'd need definite proof of this to believe it to be the truth. There is NO evidence or proof of this "higher power" you speak of (God). Therefore, I don't believe there is any possibility that he exists. What's strange about that?[CN]
我相信其他星球存在生命形式还是有可能的。但还需要确切的证据证明这是个事实。没有证据表明你有这种高级的能力可以跟上帝通话。因此我不信上帝是存在的。这有什么奇怪的?
If you can look into the night sky, realise that the billions of stars you can see are a very small percentage of what's out there, and still think that all life in the universe exists only on this one little rock then I feel extremely sorry for you. I can't imagine such a small mind, it must be truly debilitating to live like that.[CN]
如果你可以抬头看看夜空,发现上十亿的星球,只有很少有可能会有生命。你仍旧觉得只有这个星球(地球)拥有生命,我真的为你感到悲哀。真不敢想象,这么小的一个脑袋,长得这么虚弱...
The distances are so vast, almost beyond our comprehension such that shining stars are in fact not really there in real time (our time) but have long since burned out, imploded and yet their light is still travelling in our direction. And, of course, there are no aliens, no advanced civilizations. It's all here, don't you see. This like a Copernican revolution in reverse. We really are the pinnacle, the central point of everything observable. You could say we ourselves are the aliens.[CN]
距离如此宽广,根本不在我们的理解范围之内。这样闪闪发光的星球,实际上在真实的时间(我们的时间里)是不存在的。但是这星球一开始发光就燃烧很久,内爆,它们的光还一直往我们的方向行走。当然了,没有外星人,没有高级文明。事实很明显,你看不透?这个就跟哥白尼理论恰恰相反。我们就是尖峰,一切可观察到的物种的中心。你可以说,我们就是外星人。
You have to understand that if in hundreds or thousands of years an alien race does get the message, they'd still have to get here, and that is to all practical purposes impossible. Space is too big! Way too big.[CN]
你得明白,如果在上百上千年,一个外星人物种收到这个信息,他们还会到那去的,这样一来所有实践落空了。宇宙太大了,太大了
Scientists are just beating around the Bush.Aliens don't communicate with radio waves, or sound waves like dolphins. Stupid[CN]
科学家真是无孔不入啊。外星人不用电磁波交流的,也不像海豚那样用声波交流。蠢啊
Chances are we could be the ONLY intelligent life in our galaxy. We are here because 65 million years ago a comet or an asteroid hit the Earth resulting in the extinction of the dinosaurs.If we are alone then we should start getting used to it.....[CN]
最大的可能是,我们是银河系里唯一的智能生命。我们此时站在这儿很可能是6500年前一颗彗星或者小行星撞击地球,导致恐龙灭绝。如果我们是孤独的,也该习惯了
I suppose if you don't have faith you have to believe in something....[CN]
我看你根本就不会相信,有些东西还是得信一信的
The chances of any other life form out there, in the universe, being in phase development with us is so remote to be virtually impossible. We may at best find evidence of a long past existence of intelligent life and that's the best we could possibly hope for.[CN]
宇宙中存在其他一种生命形式,发展阶段跟我们一样,在边远地区,基本上没什么可能,我们需要找过去有智能生命存在的证据,那可能就是我们力所能及的事情了
Sheer hoax alien threat propaganda, they keep programming the masses with the idea the aliens are there. See the video "Bill Cooper Alien Agenda". We've been sending messages since the first radio broadcasts, if they require special types of communications, they're not that smart or they don't want to look.. Any scientist would already know this, in fact in the early days of SETI no propaganda about SETI was complete without them reminding us how far our transmissions have spread. So why do they think the aliens need special communications now? They don't, they just want to keep conditioning us to believe "first contact" is around the corner, because it is in their script, so when the curtain opens on the full blown alien hoax, you'll want to believe like children want to believe in Santa. This is the establishment pretending to be your parents, and telling their excited children that if they send a special note to a special address, Santa will read it and come.[CN]
透明的愚蠢外星人威胁到了政治宣传。他们一直给人们灌输外星人是存在的,看这个视频Bill Cooper外星人日记。自从第一台录音机出现我们就发出信息了如果他们需要其他方式的交流,他们就没有那么聪明,或者有看起来那么聪明。科学家都知道这个,实际上早期的外星搜寻计划也没有完整宣传这提醒了我们的传送有多远。为什么现在又觉得外星人需要别样的沟通方式了?他们没有,他们只是想我们让我们相信第一次交流就近在咫尺。因为这个计划在他们的议程上,所以等待外星人打开了这天窗,你就会像小孩相信有恶魔一样对此深信不疑。这就是,假装是你父母告诉他们兴奋的小孩,是否有发送过特殊的纸条到特殊的地址,恶魔会读,然后过来找你。
Chances are small the aliens will be hot and looking for mating volunteers. Probably look like Rosy O'Dummy wanting to mooch off us[CN]
外星人很性感,而且在找性交的伙伴,这种机会是很少的。可能更像Rosy O'Dummy向我们要钱的那种