SETI-program, and searching extraterrestrial civilizations

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

SETI-program is actually umbrella-term for many radio-astronomical programs, what are looking for strange radio signals from space. Those program's primary or secondary mission is to find the extraterrestrial radio signals, what are send by intelligent alien civilization. Some of those programs primary mission are to hunt for black holes or make maps of other planet's surface. But the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is the fascinating projects on the Earth.


With this program the computer scientists have created new kind of ways to analyze big data masses, with distributing data processing methods, where the computers would share their resources over the Internet, and this methodology makes new kind of network-based CAD and graphics programs like "Renderfarm" possible, but as we know the distributing data processing makes also possible to connect supercomputers together. Those ultra-powerful computers are able to connect together similar way as regular PC:s by using the Internet.


SETI uses those systems in the mission, where they are analyzing very large mass of information, and in the same purpose uses NSA (National Security Agency)  their computers. In the real world, there would be not much difference between radio astronomy and electronic intelligence. But when we are thinking about the purpose or benefit of SETI itself is that we must be ready to face an alien. We don't actually know if there is an alien near our solar system. We have ever been actually visited even in Alpha Centaur, and that's why some sarcastic person might ask, "have you visited there recently"?


If somebody says that there is not alien civilization. Actually, we probably don't know what do we know all planets even in our own solar system. And when we are thinking about the hypothetical humanoids and their hypothetical SETI-program, we must think that they might want to observe us without disturbing us. And that would mean, that those aliens would want real information of our planet. In this case, they might think, that we might be species, what is under control of some other species.


This hypothetical thing means that those humanoids would use "Dyson's sphere" type ball-shaped space stations for observing us. And in the worst case this "Dyson's sphere" would be the same kind of battle station as the "Death Star" in the movie Star Wars. This type of combat stations could be covered by ice, what makes them very difficult to separate from other ball-shaped objects in our solar system. This is one problem with communicating between civilizations. We don't know are those aliens really coming in peace. And another very big problem with the communication between civilizations is that we don't know are those hypothetical aliens actually only the users of their systems?


And this makes very difficult to make the diplomatic relationship with alien civilizations. If those aliens would want to colonize the earth, they might take one state under the control by giving they some war equipment, and that would make that state or nation to bluster to other nations. That way to use alien technology would make that nation addicted to humanoid technology, what they cannot produce. This is the reason, why we must be very careful with this kind of things. If we cannot produce our own systems and technology, would we be addicted to an indulgence of hypothetical humanoids?


In this very shocking scenario, the human race would be the slave by using the methodology, where aliens would give us a couple of their war machines, what are superior to our own aircraft. Then they would play gods in our planet, and this method where some civilization would be addicted by the weapons, what they could not the product is well known from the age of colonialism. In this case, the aliens would act like European colonialists, who destroyed many civilizations from Earth.


And I certainly don't hope this kind of future to mankind. We must stand on our own feet, and we can turn incoming asteroids away without help from humanoids, and we must feel our responsibility when we are going to other solar systems. In the future, we might be the visitors in some strange solar system and meet the primitive aliens. There we must follow the policy, that we don't addict those civilizations to our own technology. In that case, we are adults, and they are children.


We must teach them independence because in the worst case, would the result be the war between civilizations. That would be and at least the human colonies on that planet. When the help for those colonies would send from the Earth, the time of travel would take hundreds of years, and in that time would the opponent create the space flight, even if they were lived in the stone age in this hypothetical accounting and colonizing some primitive civilizations in distant future, when mankind would send the space probes to another solar system.

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The rebellion of the robots can set entire civilization in danger

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

This is the writing about the situation, where robots would become dangerous for the human race. Those robots might be created by mankind, and they could be some space probes, what would be sent to another star in distant future. Those probes would lose contact with Earth and it would make the terrible situation for mankind. Also, they might be left by human or alien colonialists who have left their planet. The reason for leaving might be that the planet could be too hot or cold, and this causes the situation, where they should leave to another star system. Maybe those colonists would stop only because they needed to repair their spaceships and then they were gone. If they would not close the robot factories property, those machines would be wake up and become a threat.


The intelligence doesn’t necessarily mean that some species are living. In real life, scientists are creating robots, what are looking like animals like bugs. Those new kind of robots are working independently, and they don’t need electricity for working property. Those animal-shaped robots could be equipped with fuel cells, what can make electricity using alcohol or another hydrocarbon. Those artificial bugs can be same sized than butterfly or dragonfly. In this scenario, the person might have this kind of robot for guarding the house. Artificial dragonfly can use alcohol like spree to create the electricity for its operations. When this small size robot needs refueling, it just flies to the plate, where is alcohol, and then it uses it in its fuel cells. The CIA would use this kind of vehicles for intelligence missions. In the wildest dreams, those small-sized robots could someday investigate the surface of the Saturnian giant moon Titan.This kind of devices can use the hydrocarbon from this moons seas.


The only thing what is needed is that in those chemical combinations have oxygen. It can be separated from the molecules by using the active carbon filter. If we are thinking about artificial intelligence and this kind of devices, we must understand, that they can continue their job even if their creators have been gone. This is the problem with interstellar space flight. If we will send the space probe with sophisticated Artificial Intelligence, this probe could become a new species, because in this scenario I will begin with the thing, that those interstellar probes have the capacity to fix themselves and make the copy of themselves. In this scenario, the artificial intelligence starts to develop itself, and because that probe has been traveled to another star maybe millions of years, the communication between Earth and this probe has been cut.


I sometimes have thought that what will happen to the probes, what have been traveled pass their target star. In the scenario, what British Interplanetary society have called “Project Daedalus” the massive probe would be sent to the Barnard Star, and the key element of this mission is that this space probe will fly past the star, and then it starts the orbital probe when it comes near the planetary system. Those probes of the future must be equipped by sophisticated artificial intelligence, what can find materials from the space to replace its structural damages. And it could also make copies of itself. The machine, what makes copies of itself is called as the “Von Neumann-machines”. When the probe has passed the star, the communication with Earth will be minimized. And then probe would lose contact with humans. This doesn’t mean that the artificial intelligence would stop working.


The nuclear reactors and other power devices are fully operational, and if the probe would travel in the space using self-sustain fusion power with the interstellar ramjet, this probe would continue its missions, and if the message from Earth would not come, this device may start to make copies of itself. In other scenarios, the civilization would build automatized factories on some planet. Those factories would make the machines and parts independently. And when this civilization would leave from this planet, they might forget to shut down their factory. If this factory can make product development and revolutionize the productions independently, it can be the begin for new species, what is actually a robot. The robot civilization would become the threat to other species because it might be felt necessary to colonize other planets.


The problem of the robots is that if they are programmed to protect their creators, who have passed away, the situation would turn violent. If they would not get any vision, of the creature, what was planned to protect, the robots would start next level of the program. And they would maybe think that their masters are dead. Robots would not have imagined. Robots do not apply anything. So in this scenarios, if the masters of those robots are gone, those machines don’t make any investigations like archeological digging, if they are not involved in their programs.


And if their masters are gone, would robots start the counterstrike. The counter strike would be limited to the normal situation. When somebody would hit against the masters of those robots, the counterstrike would be stopped by another master. But if there would be no masters of the system, would the counterstrike become the massacre. And in this scenario, those robots might start to build spaceships for continuing the strike, because the programmers of this machine would not prepare for the situation, where there are no masters of this system. And it can cause the robot invasion of another planet.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet

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