On Jun 20, 7:05 am, Ian Parker wrote:
On 19 Jun, 22:15, BradGuth wrote:

FTL isn't required (though 0.5'c' might be rather nice), and otherwise
being less smart than us humans should be more than sufficient for all
sorts of ETs to exist/coexist, including some of the bad or defective
ones that got put here on Earth.

However, if you were a smart ET/AI, as such how much distance would
you keep yourself and others of your kind away from Earth?
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Look - the question is NOT is interstellar travel possible. In fact c/
2 is my design speed for a laser accelerated probe. That is NOT what
divides us. The question is not - Is is possible for ET to get here?
The answer must be "Yes". The question is is there any evidence that
ET is here?

To that I say; Unless you're braille and/or of a naysay mindset,
where is there not evidence?

Besides, every 100,000 some odd years, we are closer to a few other
stars than we've been told, as otherwise the fully interactive 3D
orbital simulators would have been public/internet and continually up
and running, telling us exactly what's what. Christ almighty on a
stick, our NASA doesn't even include Venus within its public
simulators that'll run as though being situated on the moon at the
time of those hocus-pocus Apollo missions, and if that isn't
infomercial spewed crapolla flowing up hill, then nothing is.


We are looking at things like Google as a possible version of AI on
the Web. We are looking at the consequences which are quite literally
mind boggling. If I were to land on a planet going roung some distant
star and there was an Internet, the first thing I would do would be
put intelligence onto it and this intelligence would produce a
synopsis of all life for me.

To that I say again; Where is there not evidence?

I see and/or experience ETs AI crapolla (mostly Zion based) just about
everywhere within this internet/usenet.


We know that television appearances in effect selects the President.
If ET is embedded deeply into the Web he will be in a position to make
or break presidents. This is going to become more and more true in the
future when RSS feeds replace analogue television (Radio Reloj I
called it in the SETI discussions). We are replacing analogue
television at a rate of knots and if there is any truth in ET it means
that we are not masters of our destiny.

As I've said before; Why would any ET worth their salt need to bother
screwing with us, nor should they dare. Because we're clearly the
assholes, we're not supposed to do business with Cuba or a few other
nations. Go figure what ETs must have on their embargo (aka NO FLY)
list.


I don't know either why someone with a pseudonym of "American" seems
to think we have been visited regularly. This being the case all the
military hardware built up by the US is just so much junk. What will
be decisive for the world is the information we are presented with.
This will come from ET. ET will select what is in and not in our RSS
feeds.

And obviously you think we're as screwed up as we are because of
ourselves, with no off-world assistance whatsoever. When was the last
time we left a given nation alone, especially if there was the likes
of oil, yellowcake or some other spendy element to being had?

Besides, why on Earth would ETs have only the best of intentions?


There is no evidence I can discern that the Web does contain AI, so
the above is academic. At least I hope it is! There is no evidence of
disinformation - at least not on the ET side. There is evidence of
disinformation from people who do not want to know the truth. This
does in fact make me cross. The people though are emphatically Terran.

A true naysayer/rusemaster is in denial from the get go. (it's sort of
MIB required)


The phrase I use "?Puerde leer en espagnol?" I think expresses this.
What would you expect from a message from ET? Well perhaps not little
green ET but a Web manifesation of AI. Well it would be multilingual.
It would be expressed in a number of languages in a slightly different
form.

Why would ETs bother to let on that they have existed, as here on
Earth or otherwise upon Venus or anywhere else we might possibly look?

Wouldn't most religions or faith-based morons (especially those fence
jumping Atheists) hunt them down and kill off such ETs without
remorse? (if history counts, of course they would)

Look at what happened to Jesus Christ, and by his own kind none the
less. So, there is no limit as to what we'd do if knowing there was
an ET among us. If I were an ET, there's no freaking way in this
bigotry of hell on Earth that I'd share that knowledge. Besides, to
an interplanetary/interstellar trekking ET, what's so great about our
energy poor and otherwise 98.5% fluid Earth that's getting itself
global warmed and otherwise a little extra radiated by our salty old
anticathode moon anyway? (Earth is a wussy planet with more than it's
fair share of local problems)

BTW, c/2 seems iffy, although c/10 seems rather ET doable, as fast
enough.
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Brad Guth