https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_SETI

Even if you don’t subscribe to the Dark Forest Hypothesis it’s extraordinarily unethical to violate the cosmic privacy of the entire human race without their consent- at worst it’s essentially summoning the obliteration of all life on Earth; at best it’s scientifically experimenting on the entire human race present and future without our consent.

We should be locking up people who do this or conspire to do this for life so they don’t do any more damage.

  • @ConTheLibrarianEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I’m not sure how technology helps you here. the signal is gone and there’s no getting it back.

    That’s your assumption. Indeed there could be traces in the quantam or something else we don’t know about. Either way assuming it disappears completely is just as certain as assuming METI will result in human suffering.

    We imprison people for much less.

    Yes. That is a bad thing. We shouldn’t do that, or this lol

    • @utopianfiatOPMEnglish
      0•1 year ago

      That’s your assumption. Indeed there could be traces in the quantam

      The quantum what? This sounds like sci-fi hooey.

      We shouldn’t do that, or this lol

      Are you disagreeing with the punishment or that there should be any accountability at all for someone who summons obliteration on the planet?

      How do you think we should deal with people who are causing climate change?