{"id":934,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/scientist-fires-warning-to-humans-about-space-communication\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","slug":"scientist-fires-warning-to-humans-about-space-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/scientist-fires-warning-to-humans-about-space-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist fires warning to humans about space communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-08-14 15:19:23<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>An astronomer has urged caution about sending messages into space.<BR><br \/>\nAdam Frank has warned that humans &#8220;don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s out there&#8221; and compared trying to communicate with extraterrestrials to &#8220;sticking your head above the grass and saying we&#8217;re tasty&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nFrank told BBC Radio 5 Live&#8217;s science podcast: &#8220;I&#8217;m not a big fan of METI &#8211; the messaging extraterrestrial intelligence because really we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s out there, and it may be that the best decision is to kind of lay low.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Don&#8217;t stick your head above the grass and be like, &#8216;Hey, we&#8217;re here, we&#8217;re tasty.'&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nMeanwhile, the physicist suspects that humans will one day discover &#8220;microbial life&#8221; elsewhere in the universe.<BR><br \/>\nHe said: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s going to be pretty hard to imagine that microbial life hasn&#8217;t evolved elsewhere in the universe, probably quite often.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-08-14 15:19:23 An astronomer has urged caution about sending messages into space. Adam Frank has warned that humans &#8220;don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s out there&#8221; and compared trying to communicate with extraterrestrials&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}