To Beam, or Not to Beam?

Should we try and contact alien life?

From the film Contact (1997) From The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

Wrong Kind of Alien

Seth Shostak, scientist and co-author of Life in the Universe

• SETI– Search for Extra-Terrestrial

Intelligence

• Should we assume that aliens are inherently bad?

If they can blow up the cute little Pupulons, we don’t have a chance regardless of what we beam their way. No matter how much they love

the Beatles.

(Not an ideal situation in terms of vortexes)

Interview withHarrison Smith-Mooney

• How do you feel about aliens?• What do you think of intelligent life forms?• How do you feel about beaming messages into

space?• What would you do in a planned encounter?

Unplanned?

Other Hilarious and Totally Superfluous Space Comics

Cont’d.

Sources

• http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36855256/ns/technology_and_science-space/

• http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36839363/ns/technology_and_science-space/

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By Tanya AndersonSpecial thanks to Harrison Smith-Mooney