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What do we do if SETI is successful?

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174 points leephillips | 1 comments | 20 Oct 25 17:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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kyledrake ◴[22 Oct 25 06:03 UTC] No.45665378[source]▶
> Even Carl Sagan (a general believer that any civilization advanced enough for interstellar travel would be altruistic, not hostile) called the practice of METI “deeply unwise and immature,” and recommended that “the newest children in a strange and uncertain cosmos should listen quietly for a long time, patiently learning about the universe and comparing notes, before shouting into an unknown jungle that we do not understand.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html

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jcarrano ◴[22 Oct 25 08:13 UTC] No.45666171[source]▶
Carl Sagan doxxed the Earth with the Voyager disk.
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1. N19PEDL2 ◴[22 Oct 25 09:42 UTC] No.45666770[source]▶
It will take tens of thousands of years for Voyagers to reach only the nearest stars, so I don't think that disk is really a problem. Any alien civilisation that could reaches the probes in the near future will already know about us or will find out soon after anyway even without the information on that disk.