SETI Gift

IT'S ADVISABLE TO NOT TRANSMIT ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS FOR S.E.T.I.
AND WE CAN'T EXPECT RECEIPT OF USEFUL ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS EITHER.

WHY NOT?

EMR IS TOO SLOW / DIFFUSE FOR INTER-STELLAR COMMUNICATIONS
WE SHOULD EXPECT ADVANCED CIVILIZATIONS TO USE 'INSTANTANEOUS' & FOCUSSED UEF MODULATION ^ref-01

MORE COMPELLING REASON BELOW

"A civilization very much more advanced than we will be engaged in a busy communications traffic with its peers; but not with us, and not via technologies accessible to us."

"Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence" - by Carl Sagan (ed.) 1973 p. 366

"Communication is a universal, but the use of radio is a parochial, when we go out into the Galaxy ... a radio signal will be about as useful as a smoke signal.
Communication evolves"

"Evolving the Alien" - by Profs. Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart, 2002. ISBN 0-09-187927-2

INTELLIGENCE

1) Solar system moves through spiral arms in a 25 - 35 million year cycle

Closeness to galactic center or shielding within spiral arm probably increases fertility and intellectual ^ref-02 progress

[UEF theory says more exposure to UEF pressure lowers fertility ^ref-03 and brain activity]

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2) Hyron Spinrad found the metal content of stars - which indicates age of star generation - increases towards galactic centers

Isaac Asimov calculated - "It is nine times to eighty one times more likely that intelligence ^ref-04 has arisen earlier in the central region of our galaxy"

[Spinrad, Hyron 'Supermetallicity in nearby Galaxies' 1970 QrtlyJrnl of Royal Astronomical Society; also see ^ref-05]

[Asimov - basically because the class II stars of the central region are composed of older, recycled matter necessary for organic life.]

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3) Any intelligences must be either more advanced, equivalent or more primitive

If any organisation exists it is most probably administered by one or more of the advanced ^ref-06 groups

Not obviously motivated to seek or to welcome 'primitives'

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4) The best we could expect is intended non-interference

We may be living in a reservation, ghetto, or off-limits area

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5) From our own experience we could expect only:-

EXPLOITATIVE OR MEDDLING OFFICIALS, CARELESS PATRONIZING TOURISTS, MURDEROUS PERVERTS, or POLICEMEN hanging around our ghetto

Armed with 'magic' ^ref-07 technology

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6) So, what would you do . . . Shout? . . . Or Listen?

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7) Listen - surely

but we can't listen unless we can receive the f.t.l or maybe even intantaneous signals an advanced civilization will be using - UEF modulation ^ref-01

"The development of beings capable of questioning and understanding the universe seems quite natural. I would be quite surprised if such intelligence has not arisen many places in our very large universe"

George Smoot (of COBE fame)

"Wrinkles in Time" 1993 ISBN 0-316-90508-9

Fermi's Paradox

"Why don't we see them?"

What does non-perception ^ref-08 prove?

"Might a civilization composed of essentially immortal beings consider interstellar exploration fundamentally childish? It may be that we have not been visited because the stars are strewn abundantly in the expanse of space, so that before a nearby civilization arrives, it has altered its exploratory motivations or evolved into forms indetectable to us." - more

Karl Sagan
"Cosmos - the story of cosmic evolution, science and civilization"

"An advanced technology (say a million years old, or five hundred million, compared to the two hundred year history of `advanced' human technology) will be able to make, distribute, and hide artifacts that we cannot begin to imagine. That may well be the most likely scenario: Fermi's Paradox doesn't apply because the aliens are here, but we simply don't recognise them -
Hi, guys"

Prof.s Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart
"Evolving the Alien"
ISBN 0-09-187927-2

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We say :-

An ethical adult wouldn't interfere with the growth of a non-talking/walking child of a different species.

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Maybe
"talking & walking"
are almost within reach ^ref-01
but we're still babes-in-arms right now!

Hey!

Why's the

Solar System

so quiet?