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Orthodox scholars still believe that if extraterrestrial civilizations exist, then somewhere very far from us, and aliens probably do not even suspect the existence of of humanity.
Specialists continuously scan the sky, trying to catch messages from sentient beings from other worlds, but so far to no avail. Now Massachusetts technology staff institutes decided to slightly change their tactics and devote close attention to sending signals into space, but not receiving them from there.
James Clark, author of a new ambitious project, tells:
Earth – an isolated island in a limitless ocean space, and we are not yet able to get out of it. What will you become do if you can’t leave your island, however you have Great desire to contact the inhabitants of other islands? Right, You will try to let them know about your intention. We’re planning create a kind of lighthouse that will indicate the representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations on our planet, letting them know that she inhabited.
According to Clark and his colleagues, a laser with a power of several a megawatt passing through a huge ground-based telescope can create an incredibly strong beam that the “green men” probably notice from afar. Pointing the laser into deep space, researchers are going to demonstrate to representatives alien civilizations that we have achieved significant success in technological development. At least according to our own view.
A century after turning on the laser beacon, its beam, like assumed by scientists, a distance equal to 100 light years. The signal will be visible not only in ours, but also in neighboring galaxies. It is known that in the Milky Way alone there is several hundred exoplanets livable and theoretically able to have an intelligent life. Perhaps the inhabitants of at least one from such celestial bodies pay attention to this signal, track they will recognize him about our “blue ball”.
However, many other experts consider such an undertaking completely useless. In their opinion, if we still don’t came into contact with aliens, this could mean one of three. Either the “green men” do not exist, or are too far from us, or they simply refuse for one or another reason to interact with the human race. And such a project can be compared to scooping a teaspoon of the ocean to find whales.
By the way, the so-called “zoo hypothesis” proposed astronomer John Ball states that intelligent aliens do not intend to somehow influence the course of human development and prefer to just watch us, like animals in menagerie. And if so, then the laser beacon can only amuse aliens who have long been following our funny plans …
Life Lasers
