{"id":114472,"date":"2020-10-15T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/if-aliens-contact-us-we-wont-understand"},"modified":"2020-10-16T05:20:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T12:20:57","slug":"if-aliens-contact-us-we-wont-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/if-aliens-contact-us-we-wont-understand","title":{"rendered":"If Aliens Contact Us, We Won\u2019t Understand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/if-aliens-contact-us-we-wont-understand.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2016 gave us a fair number of false SETI detections. But lets imagine that this year it\u2019s the year.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s first detected at a radio telescope in Russia, or perhaps an optical telescope in California. But in 2017, somewhere someone picks up a signal. Skeptical astronomers alert their colleagues, yet sure enough, they\u2019re reading it out in telescopes around the world. It\u2019s too specific or too weird to be a known natural phenomenon, and it repeats itself with suspiciously high fidelity over some interval. Cautiously, but excitedly, the news gets out. We\u2019ve received a message from the stars.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth wondering: what would happen next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 gave us a fair number of false SETI detections. But lets imagine that this year it\u2019s the year. Maybe it\u2019s first detected at a radio telescope in Russia, or perhaps an optical telescope in California. But in 2017, somewhere someone picks up a signal. Skeptical astronomers alert their colleagues, yet sure enough, they\u2019re reading [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114522,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114472\/revisions\/114522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}