SETI guy already said this kind of signal is not very uncommon and it always ends up being nothing interesting

SETI guy already said this kind of signal is not very uncommon and it always ends up being nothing interesting.
Our greatest hope still lies in KIC 8462852.

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Japan. Without a fucking doubt, whatever kind of fucked up alien life that touches down here is going straight for the little island full of autistic titans of industry.

they will give us weapons to overthrow the american rule and will make us their representatives to subdue and to tax the world for our alien overlords

better learn russian

they will especially like the japanese porn industry.

Sweden of course

Germany, they like foreigners.
Muh Merkel

The USA. Aliens always land there.

but they hate them, see

>implying any intelligent civilization wouldn't just want to wipe us out for Earth's jaw dropping natural resources, or to prevent competition later on, especially now that we're just entering a new age of discovery in outer space

>implying we wouldn't want to wipe an alien civilization out either, if they are stronger for posing a threat to us, if they are weaker then because we are simply incapable of trusting another species outside of our own

>friendly reminder that aliens will definitely won't be bipedal, and won't resemble humans at all. Most likely they will appear hideous and deformed to our eyes, simply body horror on a whole new level

Berserker probe 2bh.

I've seen a few movies about aliens and russia is always portrayed as an aggressor who wants to kill the aliens right away.

Is this not true?
I thought russians are very protective of their motherland.

Why can't we be friends?

>natural resources
There are billions of uninhabited planets with resources, there's no reason why Earth would have a higher priority.

Because ultimately we can never be sure of the aliens motives and mindset. Even with decades of research studying their biology, history and home planet (as if they'd ever give access to all of that) we might not come up with anything. Sure we could invent a few scenarios and likely patterns, but ultimately they're just that. Predictions. Humanity's fate is far too precious to gamble it away on good intentions and assumptions.

Heck, the only reason we can tell what animals "think" is because we see ourselves in them at every turn. It's no coincidence humans tended to anthropomorphize animals for all their history. Birds basking in the sunlight, a dog sighing self defeated. A grief stricken elephant, refusing to leave its calf.
As you can see certain behavior patterns appear universal, but that is due to our shared DNA, (over 85% with zebrafish, 35% with fruit flies) thus everything we think we know about animal behavior will have to be thrown out the window as soon as we leave Earth.

>thinking only minerals and basic elements can be resources
whew

the reason we don't communicate with animals is because they lack intelligence and they don't really want or need to communicate with us.

a sentient alien species would certainly be intelligent enough to try to communicate. even if they have weird mediums of communication like electro magnetic manipulation or something we could detect those patterns and attempt to create a mutually intelligible language.

>defining "intelligence"
That's not how it works, intelligence is a human construct and doesn't really apply to nature, as organisms such as slime molds can solve problems without any nervous system at all. I think the words your looking for would be "human-like".

You're* shit.

the countries with pyramids of course

>t. Goes xenophobe on stellaris

I've read books about aliens, I don't imagine they would want to give us free technology and enter us into some kind of space union, what would more likely happen is they would be God-like to us and either try and destroy, enslave, or even domesticate us as pets in some form or something like it. Aliens that have become so advanced that they would be god-like to the already powerful type-2 aliens wouldn't want to associate with us or probably bother us in any way shape or form I think

This is all true and of course our earth biological paradigms are completely arbitrary, but that doesn't mean aliens will appear "horrible" to us, as in insulting our senses.

they'll probably overthrow the alien patriarchy and install communism then send off millions of aliens to be worked to death in gulags breaking out a war of the worlds which will lead to the long overdue extermination of man.

universetoday.com/130515/aliens-strong-signal-detected-sun-like-star-verified-seti/

>Update: A member of the SETI@Home team posted a note online that they were “unimpressed” with the paper from the Russian radio astronomers. “Because the receivers used were making broad band measurements, there’s really nothing about this “signal” that would distinguish it from a natural radio transient (stellar flare, active galactic nucleus, microlensing of a background source, etc.) There’s also nothing that could distinguish it from a satellite passing through the telescope field of view. All in all, it’s relatively uninteresting from a SETI standpoint.”

So, this detection might not be as exciting as originally reported. Also SETI senior astronomer Seth Shostak has now weighed in on the topic, also with measured skepticism on the excitement, with a post about this event on the SETI website.

its our brothers from outer space trying to rescue us from this unjust hellhole of filthy mongrels

we will burn everything down
starting with norgay