It's not like the aliens will dress up for a photo op.
The best we can get is IF videos from camera mounted on an F18 and those are shot through atmospheric interference at long distant so they won't have the best resolution.
You assume that there is required an equal amount of food and water as a human needs. But we do not know how much an alien would need.
Would an analog application invented in 1977 using an IC with 100k transistors, with known performance improvements "if we just had a million more" been immune from Moore's law?
I supposed an alien race that is advance enough they probably have the capability of building an unmanned robotic spacecraft. But then there is the curiosity involved. That is even alien would they feel their own curiosity enough that they would want to see for themselves?
I speculated, somewhere far upthread that, maybe we've not detected advanced alien civilizations because, perhaps, they don't utilize RF. Maybe, they communicate by modulating space-time. Apparently, the astrophysics community had started wondering the same thing.
Two Unexplained Signals Found By a New Gravitational Wave Detector - YouTube
Two Unexplained Signals Found By a New Gravitational Wave Detector - YouTube
Stanislaw Lem explored the problems of understanding alien communication in his book "His Master's Voice".
He concluded that our species may never be able to read or understand a message from extraterrestrials.
There's an interesting analysis of his thoughts here: Astronomy magazine - If Aliens Contact Us, We Won't Understand | Astronomy Magazine
He concluded that our species may never be able to read or understand a message from extraterrestrials.
There's an interesting analysis of his thoughts here: Astronomy magazine - If Aliens Contact Us, We Won't Understand | Astronomy Magazine
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That may depend on what the intent of message is. If more advanced beings are intending to message us, they would make it so that we can understand it. When we try to communicate with ... say dogs, we use sound or simple enough of commands that dogs can decipher.
Communication is inherently intuitive. Our ability to do so with nature proves that. It's not complicated. Intelligence has no problem propagating. It does so naturally.
Only if it's that simple, the world peace would've been achieved long ago. 🙁
Instead of thinking of the farfetched, we human are hitting against the wall with our own technology. Of all the fancy talks of interstellar travel, I don't see a known break-through that will allow us to get there anytime soon. Maybe there is an inherent limit to human understanding.
It's like teaching a dog mathematics. No matter what we try, nobody can teach a dog doing mathematics. But the dog probably does not even aware of its own limitation, just like we are not aware of our own limitations.
It's like teaching a dog mathematics. No matter what we try, nobody can teach a dog doing mathematics. But the dog probably does not even aware of its own limitation, just like we are not aware of our own limitations.