04-07-2021, 07:25 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style...27748.html
String theorist Michio Kaku has said that we should be cautious about contacting aliens because of the threat of extra-terrestrial life conquering us.
Kaku made the comments in light of the development of the James Webb telescope, a massive space telescope that will be the successor to Hubble.
The construction of the Webb telescope will provide scientists with “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 civilisation”, Kaku said in a recent interview with The Guardian.
“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. Now, personally, I think that aliens out there would be friendly but we can’t gamble on it. So I think we will make contact but we should do it very carefully.”
Yeah, I probably agree with him here. I would intuitively expect a technologically-advanced alien civilisation to have a strong sense of morality, but I don't see any reason why this would need to be the case.
Of course, there's also a good chance that they'd have made the same calculation about us - and therefore, they would decide not to contact us either !
String theorist Michio Kaku has said that we should be cautious about contacting aliens because of the threat of extra-terrestrial life conquering us.
Kaku made the comments in light of the development of the James Webb telescope, a massive space telescope that will be the successor to Hubble.
The construction of the Webb telescope will provide scientists with “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 civilisation”, Kaku said in a recent interview with The Guardian.
“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. Now, personally, I think that aliens out there would be friendly but we can’t gamble on it. So I think we will make contact but we should do it very carefully.”
Yeah, I probably agree with him here. I would intuitively expect a technologically-advanced alien civilisation to have a strong sense of morality, but I don't see any reason why this would need to be the case.
Of course, there's also a good chance that they'd have made the same calculation about us - and therefore, they would decide not to contact us either !
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