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Why aliens should be terrified of NASA’s new space telescope
https://thenextweb.com/news/why-aliens-s...-telescope
EXCERPTS: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) [...] the scientific community is buzzing with anticipation. Some scientists are excited at the prospect of ‘traveling through time’ to discover the origin story of our universe, while others hope it’ll help us connect the dots between classical and quantum physics.
But at least one researcher believes the JWST could be a harbinger of ill tidings. In an interview over the weekend, world-renowned physicist Michio Kaku, one of the scientists responsible for string theory, told the Guardian that he didn’t think humans should contact any aliens we find. Here’s the relevant snippet:
"Soon we’ll have the Webb telescope up in orbit and we’ll have thousands of planets to look at, and that’s why I think the chances are quite high that we may make contact with an alien civilization. There are some colleagues of mine that believe we should reach out to them. I think that’s a terrible idea. We all know what happened to Montezuma when he met Cortés in Mexico so many hundreds of years ago."
[...] We could engage in endless conjecture when it comes to discussing what might happen if/when we discover alien life. Instead, let’s just take a moment to state some key facts about the JWST so we can see how they tie into what we might find, ET-wise, when it gets where it’s going:
(1) It’s 100X more powerful than Hubble and uses infrared scanning technology to see things further away and with greater detail
(2) It will scan thousands of potentially habitable worlds for signs of life, something Hubble wasn’t designed to do
(3) If everything goes according to plan: it’ll reach its destination, calibrate its sensors, and be fully-operational by May 2022
[...] We have no way of knowing what kind of aliens we might discover. Perhaps they’ll be amoeba-like. Or maybe we’ll find a fledgling planet where flora and fauna flourish, but intelligence hasn’t evolved yet. And, yes, it could even mean we find intelligent life. The only thing we can know for sure is that any life we do manage to find should be very, very afraid.
Nearly every civilization that’s inhabited Earth either warred with other civilizations or was dominated by one or more that did. [...] Objectively speaking, almost everything about the state of our world indicates violence is inevitable where humans are involved. If we meet an intelligent species, we’re likely to go to war.
[...] Still, there’s no guarantee there’s any life out there. And even if there is, it could still take decades, centuries, or millennia for us to venture out far enough or develop the right technology to find it... (MORE - missing details)
Why James Webb Telescope will likely find alien life
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Why aliens should be terrified of NASA’s new space telescope
https://thenextweb.com/news/why-aliens-s...-telescope
EXCERPTS: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) [...] the scientific community is buzzing with anticipation. Some scientists are excited at the prospect of ‘traveling through time’ to discover the origin story of our universe, while others hope it’ll help us connect the dots between classical and quantum physics.
But at least one researcher believes the JWST could be a harbinger of ill tidings. In an interview over the weekend, world-renowned physicist Michio Kaku, one of the scientists responsible for string theory, told the Guardian that he didn’t think humans should contact any aliens we find. Here’s the relevant snippet:
"Soon we’ll have the Webb telescope up in orbit and we’ll have thousands of planets to look at, and that’s why I think the chances are quite high that we may make contact with an alien civilization. There are some colleagues of mine that believe we should reach out to them. I think that’s a terrible idea. We all know what happened to Montezuma when he met Cortés in Mexico so many hundreds of years ago."
[...] We could engage in endless conjecture when it comes to discussing what might happen if/when we discover alien life. Instead, let’s just take a moment to state some key facts about the JWST so we can see how they tie into what we might find, ET-wise, when it gets where it’s going:
(1) It’s 100X more powerful than Hubble and uses infrared scanning technology to see things further away and with greater detail
(2) It will scan thousands of potentially habitable worlds for signs of life, something Hubble wasn’t designed to do
(3) If everything goes according to plan: it’ll reach its destination, calibrate its sensors, and be fully-operational by May 2022
[...] We have no way of knowing what kind of aliens we might discover. Perhaps they’ll be amoeba-like. Or maybe we’ll find a fledgling planet where flora and fauna flourish, but intelligence hasn’t evolved yet. And, yes, it could even mean we find intelligent life. The only thing we can know for sure is that any life we do manage to find should be very, very afraid.
Nearly every civilization that’s inhabited Earth either warred with other civilizations or was dominated by one or more that did. [...] Objectively speaking, almost everything about the state of our world indicates violence is inevitable where humans are involved. If we meet an intelligent species, we’re likely to go to war.
[...] Still, there’s no guarantee there’s any life out there. And even if there is, it could still take decades, centuries, or millennia for us to venture out far enough or develop the right technology to find it... (MORE - missing details)
Why James Webb Telescope will likely find alien life