And, What if Stephen Hawking was Right about Aliens? By Brian Simpson
This story shows the hubris, arrogance, anti-democratic nature of the scientists. Although this has been done before scientists have now devised a precise radio massage to be beamed into deep space, giving the earth’s precise location, as well as a sketch of what we are as a species, to any aliens out there who care to listen. The late Professor Stephen Hawking thought that this was a very bad idea, since the entire project is based upon the idea that any aliens would be both technologically advanced and friendly. Even if they were, perhaps, as happened to native tribes in the New World, diseases could be introduced to Earth wiping out humanity. There are so many problems with this that such an idea should be stopped in its tracks, but the Dr Frankenstein scientists are free to do it, because of “muh scientific advancement.” Science in many respects is one of our greatest unopposed tyrannies, but as it delivers technology, and a few crumbs fall from the table of the super-elites, even conservatives do not adequately challenge the rule of this technocratic sacred cow, or is it monster?
“Scientists have designed a radio message to be beamed into deep space that reveals Earth's location, which they hope will be received and understood by an intelligent alien civilization.
The message is essentially an updated version of the famous Arecibo message, transmitted in 1974, which had the same purpose. Broadcast from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico, the message consisted of 1,679 bits arranged into 73 lines of 23 characters.
The message was transmitted in binary code—ones and zeroes. Once decoded, the message forms a visual graphic consisting of a stick figure of a human as well as representations of our solar system, DNA, and the Arecibo telescope.
Now, scientists have designed a new message to improve upon the Arecibo transmission. Called the Beacon in the Galaxy (BITG) message, it contains more information about basic mathematics and science than the Arecibo message did. It is hoped that these concepts will be universally understood by life forms of at least similar intelligence to humans.
Matthew Chong, a physics and maths student at Cambridge University and co-author of a draft report outlining the project, told Newsweek: "Extended from the 1974 Arecibo message and the 1999/2003 Cosmic Call, the main part of this BITG Message contains a new set of graphical information in the form of images and special 'alphabets' to represent numbers, elements, DNA, land, ocean, and human, etc., starting by an artificial header and footer that consists of prime numbers."
Jonathan Jiang, project lead and scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), told Newsweek that the BITG message also depicts a group of cosmic landmarks "to indicate the location of Earth within the Milky Way galaxy."
The researchers do not intend to send the message themselves, but propose that it could one day be transmitted from the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope in China and the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array in northern California.
The question of whether or not we are alone in the universe has tantalized scientists for decades, but efforts to find intelligent—or even microbial—life anywhere else but Earth have been unsuccessful. Some scientists think that's a good thing.
Stephen Hawking's Concerns About Aliens
The late physics Professor Stephen Hawking expressed concern multiple times about humans calling out into the vastness of space and contacting aliens.
In 2015, Hawking appeared at an event announcing the launch of the Breakthrough Listen project, which studies radio waves in an effort to find out if any of them are artificial in origin.
Hawking showed support for efforts to find alien life by listening, but warned against actively reaching out ourselves, using humanity's own behavior as a sign that aliens won't necessarily be friendly.”
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