The Fermi Paradox: The Dangerous Radio : 無料・フリー素材/写真
The Fermi Paradox: The Dangerous Radio / timtak
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| 説明 | Fermi's paradox was initially formulated as, "Where is everybody?" bearing in mind the number of other stars, one might expect alien civilisations to have already contacted earth. The absence of aliens has lead some to hypothesise that civilisations have the tendency to self-destruct some time after developing radio or space-flight technology. The important point here is that it is the former, "radio" or mass communications technology in general, that would seem to be harbinger, or even cause, of the "great watershed." The ability to communicate to large numbers of one's own species by water ever means, light, loud noises, streams of neutrinos, or radio waves, in short the ability to broadcast might presumably lead to leakage, communications straying off into the cosmos. And while these may be indecipherable they might distinguished themselves from natural noises such as emitted by stars, wind, and cosmic-waves. A case in point, human ability to broadcast Morse code in 1880, and the first radio in 1906 (of "Silent Night" and readings from the bible) are over a hundred years old. Music transmissions became popular in the 1940s. On the other hand, our ability to travel to the stars, or at least the cryogenic technology to make setting off worth while, would seem to be quite a way in the future. Thus, at least in the case of humans, the ability to broadcast, and leak evidence of our existence to others, precedes our ability to actually travel to meet aliens by a very considerable amount of time. The ability to travel faster than light, or survive the time required to reach other stars and galaxies many light years away, might never be obtained, but all the while, for the past one hundred some years our radios have been blaring out the sounds of the 40s, 50s...Fermi might therefore have asked "why can't we hear them" or "where are their broadcasts?." Upon the assumption that there is something that prevents civilisations from surviving long enough to be heard by others, this would seem to suggest that radios, rather than rockets, or the ability to broadcast rather than nuclear bombs, which is the technology that puts a stop to itself, and extra planetary advance. Could there be anything dangerous about radios, or broadcasting, on the Internet? What information, or communication, if broadcast, might put a stop to our ability to keep doing so? Image adapted fromVintage Commodore Super De Luxe 6-Transistor Radio, Reverse Plastic, Made in Japan (No Model Number) by Joe Haupt, on Flickr, which is in excellent condition, and is not broken at all. |
| 撮影日 | 2019-01-23 13:56:16 |
| 撮影者 | timtak , Yamaguchi, Japan |
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