http://motls.blogspot.in/2016/05/messagi...erous.html
EXCERPT: [...] I generally believe that the widespread opinion that the life is almost everywhere is unjustifiable, directly clashing with certain emerging data, and the life on our planet may very well be very rare if not unique. [...] But that's not what I want to talk about here.
[...] SETI policies what to do after a detection are heavily outdated (written down in 1989) and if a detection took place now, in the era of intense social networks on the Internet, it would be almost guaranteed to lead to chaos and omnipresent misinformation. An update is badly needed.
[...] Whenever one hears a “scientist” assert that ET must be [...such and such....] ask to see the data set on which they base their conclusions. As of today, no such data set exists. In the absence of any evidence whatsoever, whether one believes that the extraterrestrial civilization we might first encounter will be benign [...] or malicious [...] or something else entirely is strictly a matter of one’s personal taste....
EXCERPT: [...] I generally believe that the widespread opinion that the life is almost everywhere is unjustifiable, directly clashing with certain emerging data, and the life on our planet may very well be very rare if not unique. [...] But that's not what I want to talk about here.
[...] SETI policies what to do after a detection are heavily outdated (written down in 1989) and if a detection took place now, in the era of intense social networks on the Internet, it would be almost guaranteed to lead to chaos and omnipresent misinformation. An update is badly needed.
[...] Whenever one hears a “scientist” assert that ET must be [...such and such....] ask to see the data set on which they base their conclusions. As of today, no such data set exists. In the absence of any evidence whatsoever, whether one believes that the extraterrestrial civilization we might first encounter will be benign [...] or malicious [...] or something else entirely is strictly a matter of one’s personal taste....