Alien hunters 'should look for artificial intelligence'

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Interesting article.

SETI is a front for an establishment that is already aware of extraterrestrial presence.


Which do you suppose aliens prefer (before they start building robots), AM, FM or Shortwave?

More ridiculous human arrogance, to think that a species capable of interstellar travel would consider radio communication any more representative of civilization and intelligence than stone arrowheads.

On a slightly irrelevant note - I think it is a gross assumption that UFOlogists and Cosmologists (the former recruits mainly cantankerous people) do not take non Carbon based lifeforms into the equation. In my humble, adolescent opinion, there is a higher chance (or equal, at least) of non Carbon based lifeforms exsisting. Think of all of the possible undiscovered elements that could be found on an extrasolar planet!

@Helixstein
I do believe that a number of Cosmologists at NASA presume there is methane based life at mars, and have even made possible criteria of what would be needed for methane base life to exist.

If aliens exist, why haven't they already found us? Given the vastness of the universe, and its mindbogglingly old age, the odds are that, if there are intelligent civilizations elsewhere, some of them would have found us before we find them. The fact that we haven't been found suggests to me that there are no extraterrestrial civilizations, or few of them.

Also, all life on Earth ultimately descends from the same lineage. If the conditions on this planet were favourable to the development of life for many millions of years, why has life arisen only once? This suggests that life doesn't arise very easily, lending support to the hypothesis that there is little alien life out there.

If I come across as a killjoy, don't get me wrong. I would be very excited if aliens were indeed found, but I find the evidence sobering and that reluctantly makes me keep my hopes low.

As for the article, the problem is that the development by humans of artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, so we don't know what advanced artificial intelligence would look like. If we're looking for artificial intelligence as a sign of extraterrestrial life, we don't know what we are looking for.

Our search methods would not discover us before 1900. Statring then we have radiant energy, and the rise of Cancer, now with microwaves, the Bees. Intelligent life would get rid of this to survive.

Our other signal, The Bomb, means put them on the list to visit in a half million years.

We could go into space now, but we could never come back. Going to another star, means many generations space born, and raising the last to survive with a whole new set of fungi, bacteria, and large reptiles being the most likely life form.

Like it or not, we are the mutated survivors of reptile life.

We need a slime detector, for by the time we got there they could be us.

From a quite mind expanding article that explains how a spacefaring entity would be able to travel across interstellar and even intergalactic distances and communicate instantaneously with beings of its own kind without breaking any known laws of physics:

‎"A duty-cycle life form would probably not send out its signals in a continuous period of time but rather in short bursts separated by hundreds or thousands of years, perhaps to match its own duty cycles ... An evolving life form in space might take advantages of certain places within the galaxy. It would need materials, fuel, and energy to sustain itself-- its food. Perhaps the prime area for gathering such materials might occur in the place where all the atomic elements reside. Supernova halos might serve as an excellent source for harvesting the elements since novas create the heavy elements and throw them out along with the lighter elements. They might even take advantage of using an isolated black-hole as a massive gravitational slingshot to propel them to other galaxies. They might utilize stray star systems between galaxies as oasis points to gather energy for the long intergalactic voyages. So if the possibility exists for us to find them (if they so decide to send out signals to terrestrial beings), perhaps we might best find them at their feeding grounds. If we cannot find individual life forms, perhaps a multitude of them leave a detectable signature. If, indeed, these space creatures exit in the millions, perhaps we could scan areas looking for blinks in the sky (like camera flashes in a football stadium). Looking closer at Nova halos, black holes, and isolated stars between galaxies might reveal these flash signatures where they might tend to communicate with each other in shorter intervals.. These brief flashes would appear to us as random so we probably could not decipher them, but at least we might have some knowledge of interstellar life.."

Source: http://nobeliefs.com/death&timetravel.htm

I read that, and immediately thought of this: http://www.bigear.org/wowmenu.htm

Shortly followed by this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama