{"id":25867,"date":"2016-05-19T01:46:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T08:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/hiding-from-hostile-space-aliens-is-no-longer-an-option"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:59:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:59:11","slug":"hiding-from-hostile-space-aliens-is-no-longer-an-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/hiding-from-hostile-space-aliens-is-no-longer-an-option","title":{"rendered":"Hiding From Hostile Space Aliens Is No Longer An Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hiding-from-hostile-space-aliens-is-no-longer-an-option2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advocates of Active SETI say it\u2019s better to put our best foot forward first, before E.T. gets the wrong idea about us from shock jocks and reality TV. As in politics, define ourselves before someone else does it for us. Plus, they contend, they\u2019d already know we\u2019re here anyway.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Two new separate groups of scientists now want to send coded radio messages into the cosmos in hopes of deliberately attracting the attention of intelligent space aliens. Known as Active SETI (Active Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), it\u2019s arguably no safer to entice unknown offworlders into our planetary living room than to invite total strangers in for coffee and crullers.<\/p>\n<p>But even if they are totally unsavory, it\u2019s highly likely that an interstellar civilization would already be picking up our electromagnetic leakage and therefore already know we\u2019re here, Douglas Vakoch, President of the San Francisco-based non-profit METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/international\/\" target=\"_self\">International<\/a>, told me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s too late to conceal ourselves in the universe, so we should decide how we want to represent ourselves,\u201d said Vakoch, an expert in interstellar message construction. \u201c Extraterrestrials may be waiting for a clear indication from us that we\u2019re ready to start talking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/05\/19\/hiding-from-hostile-space-aliens-is-no-longer-an-option\/#5cd5e839782d\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/05\/19\/hiding-...d5e839782d<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates of Active SETI say it\u2019s better to put our best foot forward first, before E.T. gets the wrong idea about us from shock jocks and reality TV. As in politics, define ourselves before someone else does it for us. Plus, they contend, they\u2019d already know we\u2019re here anyway. Two new separate groups of scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25867","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\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67468,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25867\/revisions\/67468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}