Aliens and Communication
While I have an open mind that there is potential for life on other planets, it creates a paradox for us. If there are sentient beings out there, how does anyone go faster then the universe’s speed limit of light? We can not get to them and they cannot get to us. Perhaps we can send each other messages but how reliable would that be seeing that we are not always successful with a cell phone call to someone a town over?
Us: “We are going to bomb the crap out of you. Ha ha! We are such jokers on planet Earth. People always say a great way to start a conversation with a stranger is a good joke. So hello there Planet Z from Planet Earth!”
The message never makes it there in its entirety. Planet Z only received the first sentence and now they are on their way over to bomb the crap out of us with their super high-tech jet fighters and spaceships. Then it gets worse as they try to contact us just in case it is a miscommunication and not really a threat.
Planet Z: “Why did you say that?”
Us: “It was a joke!”
Planet Z: “We did not get joke part!”
Us: “You guys have no sense of humor!”
Planet Z: “No seriously, we did not receive the joke part. Man, we are idiots! Boy, you sure got us, trekking all the way over here like this. Are we on camera anywhere? I know there’s a hidden camera somewhere! Oh man you Earthlings are funny people. We want to share our vast wealth of technology, including the cure for all of your diseases and ailments, interstellar spaceflight, alternative clean fuel sources as powerful as oil, how to build societies underwater. There is so much we can teach you…”
Ka-Boom!!
Unfortunately, once again Planet Z’s cell phone dropped the call and Earth never heard any of that last paragraph of the transmission. Instead we aimed our nukes at the ships and blew them all up, thus eradicating an entire alien species.
With our luck that will be the only other sentient humanoid race in the universe besides us.
(Reprinted from the former blog)
