Monday, April 06, 2009
How do you communicate to other worlds?
How do you communicate to other worlds?
I think that communication to other worlds must be much more tricky than one might think. Otherwise other
civilisations would have already done it successfully.
If one thinks that it is going to be really diffiucult, maybe because one does not have
the time ( for whatever reason), then perhaps you just go ahead with colonisation anyway.
Now this is rather a long shot if you do it the traditional way.
But how about firing out, at great velocity, the smallest bits of 'life' that might survive the flight
and colonise? Would not one fire out the odd dna and rna strand. If one could direct this as well,
so much the better.
Fred Hoyles idea of life coming from outer space, would certainly speed up the process. But how
much more if the stuff was intentionally selected and directed at us.
Of course, it could be any sort of nanomachine, but RNA is currently about the best we have.
cheers
MartinW
