[meteorite-list] What Happens If China Makes First Contact?

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 19:26:33 -0600
Message-ID: <134139.10678.bm_at_smtp120.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Alfredo, Paul, List,
 
I can suggest two recent
(within a few decades) books
on the whole question of
Extraterrestial contact:
 
"If the Universe is Teeming
With Aliens, Where Is Every-
body?" (2002) by Stephen
Webb, presents in detail the
arguments for 50 different
explanations for the apparent
lack of evidence for aliens
everywhere (or anywhere).

He has a website:
<http://stephenwebb.info/category/fermi-paradox/>

A history of recent searches
and searchers is: "Five Billion
Years of Solitude: The Search
for Life Among the Stars," by
Lee Billings" (2013).

Even that title seems mournful
to me...


Sterling Webb
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Let's hope that no one ever makes contact, because it would be a disaster
for one of the parties, us or them. In first contacts between cultures, the
less developed one is usually destroyed, if not by violence then by
inferiority complexes, addictions and other mental issues. Making contact
with an alien culture that is just coincidentally at the same technological
level as us would be so improbable as to be in the realm of religious hope
rather than reality.

On 19 November 2017 at 02:02, Roman Jirasek via Meteorite-list
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:


        As America has turned away from searching for
        extraterrestrial intelligence . . .
        
        Maybe because they already found it years ago!?
        
        Roman
        
        
        From: Paul via Meteorite-list
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        What Happens If China Makes First Contact?
        As America has turned away from searching for
        extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the
        world's largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.
        The Atlantic, Ross Andersen, December 2017
        
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/what-happens-if-china-m
akes-first-contact/544131/
<https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/what-happens-if-china-
makes-first-contact/544131/>
        
https://soundcloud.com/user-154380542/what-happens-if-china-makes-first-cont
act-the-atlantic-ross-andersen
<https://soundcloud.com/user-154380542/what-happens-if-china-makes-first-con
tact-the-atlantic-ross-andersen>
        
        With Massive Radio Telescope, China Takes World's Lead
        In Search For Alien Life, here and Now, November 16, 2017
        http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/11/16/china-radio-telescope
<http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/11/16/china-radio-telescope>
        
        The Alien Observatory --China's Preeminent Philosopher of
        'First Contact' Visits New FAST Radio Telescope: "Warns of
        Extinction By a Hidden Hunter" The Daily Galaxy,
        November 08, 2017
        
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/11/the-alien-observatory-chinas-pr
eeminent-philosopher-of-first-contact-visits-new-fast-radio-telsecope-warns-
of-human-1.html
<http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/11/the-alien-observatory-chinas-p
reeminent-philosopher-of-first-contact-visits-new-fast-radio-telsecope-warns
-of-human-1.html>
        
        Yours,
        
        Paul H.
        
        
        
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