What If We Tried to Contact Alien Civilizations?

You've seen it in the movies. Contact with aliens often ends badly for humans. So why do we keep trying to get in touch with them? We don't even know if aliens really exist. But if aliens do exist, and if they're advanced enough to detect our existence, chances are they're doing one of two things. Either they're avoiding us, or they're on their way.But the most important question is, will they come in peace?

Listen to the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism pondering your most popular “what if” questions.

Thumbnail image credit: ESO/L. Calçada. Artist’s rendering showing ESO's Extremely Large Telescope using its lasers to filter out noise in the atmosphere during the image capturing process.

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[soumyajitroy]

Humans : sends radio signals, body diagram, laser signals
Alien : ✅ *seen*

[JustADioWhosAHeroForFun]

Humans: *Humans broadcast themselves into Outer Space*
Aliens: "This show is terrible, change the channel"

[m.usmansohail]

"Some civilization may live in secrecy to protect themselves from other civilizations.... "
Humans : *We don't do that here*

[lmillenium]

Humans broadcasts themselves to the outer space

Aliens: "What the hell am I watching?"

[Oscar-Green]

How are we supposed to communicate with aliens when we can't even build ice cream machines for McDonald's that don't break down every day?

[randirafaeli]

If Aliens doesn't exist then it's just a huge waste of space

Edit: Just wanted to quote a movie and now people are arguing in the comment. Damn.

[DailyFunFactsYt]

Fun Fact:

Barcode scanners scan the white part not the black.

- Daily Fun Facts

[srininaladala]

Is it only me who loves the way they say “Here’s what

[phillip]

Ailens: you can't defeat us

Humans: I know but he can

Covid-19:

[frostsovereign]

4:37 We dont have the techonolgy or the infastructure to defend against such an invasion
-Area 51 Hold my U.F.O

[zianjamesretuya]

"haha im on space, ads won't catch me here now"


doritos: haha cute

[cis]

"Why do always assume that aliens are gonna be violent."

Uhm we got this word called racism.

[emiliatan]

*What if we broadcast our existence into outer space*
Me: April, no

[stanchester]

At the start: that's actually a good question

[kingvincentlertido]

What if all internet connection in the world is fast just like the internet in NASA

[bragadeesh]

Imagine, we found out that earth is the only thing in the universe which has life in it.

[BadassBobY]

He : We've Seen in Movies that Contact With Aliens Ends bad in Most Cases

Me After Watching 'Koi Mil Gaya' : *Gotcha B*tch* 😂😂

[skepticjoker]

What if:- They use drake equation
Me:- "She said do you love me, I sai-
What if:- Not that drake..

MY BAD..😂

[temistogen]

We already sent a message both radio waves and things that contain information about us.
My question is:Who gives anyone a right to do those things?

[razorblade]

What if we broadcast our existence into space
Stephen Hawking in heaven:
"Do you want to die?"