{"id":139939,"date":"2022-05-28T22:25:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T03:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/humans-are-more-likely-to-attack-an-extraterrestrial-civilization-than-the-other-way-around-says-scientist"},"modified":"2022-05-28T22:25:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T03:25:34","slug":"humans-are-more-likely-to-attack-an-extraterrestrial-civilization-than-the-other-way-around-says-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/humans-are-more-likely-to-attack-an-extraterrestrial-civilization-than-the-other-way-around-says-scientist","title":{"rendered":"Humans Are More Likely To Attack An Extraterrestrial Civilization Than The Other Way Around Says Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-are-more-likely-to-attack-an-extraterrestrial-civilization-than-the-other-way-around-says-scientist.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Should we send messages into space in an effort to contact intelligent extra-terrestrial civilizations? Or should be fear them attacking us and transmit nothing? Two conflicting and oft-heard questions, but it turns out we may overlooking something rather important and completely obvious\u2014 it\u2019s probably us that are the malicious aliens.<\/p>\n<p>When I read that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ericmack\/2022\/05\/26\/aliens-are-far-less-likely-to-destroy-us-than-an-asteroid-new-paper-says\/?sh=49ea941a1b67\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ericmack\/2022\/05\/26\/aliens-are-far-less-likely-to-destroy-us-than-an-asteroid-new-paper-says\/?sh=49ea941a1b67\" aria-label=\"we\u2019ve got more chance of being struck by a planet-killer asteroid\">we\u2019ve got more chance of being struck by a planet-killer asteroid<\/a> than being invaded by aliens, I was intrigued.<\/p>\n<p>So I got in touch with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/TheExoplanetsChannel\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/TheExoplanetsChannel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Alberto Caballero\">Alberto Caballero<\/a>, the author of the though experiment-style <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2205.11618\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2205.11618\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"paper\">paper<\/a> published this week, to find out more. His paper is an attempt to determine how many malicious extraterrestrial civilizations there could be, and how likely it is that they would invade us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should we send messages into space in an effort to contact intelligent extra-terrestrial civilizations? Or should be fear them attacking us and transmit nothing? Two conflicting and oft-heard questions, but it turns out we may overlooking something rather important and completely obvious\u2014 it\u2019s probably us that are the malicious aliens. When I read that we\u2019ve [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139939","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}