Once we get signs of alien life ( well , if ) we will have to grapple with a new dubiousness , presuming that they have n’t made the first move : should we make contact ?
famed physicist Michio Kaku has made himself cleared on the theme over the geezerhood , express that he believes we will find out foreign life history , and if we do we should be wary of pee contact . In a new audience withThe Guardian , he has gone further , call it a " dreadful estimation " .
" Soon we ’ll have the Webb scope up in orbit and we ’ll have thousands of planets to look at , and that ’s why I think the chances are quite mellow that we may make contact with an alien civilisation,“he told the issue .
" There are some colleagues of mine that think we should reach out to them . I think that ’s a dreaded idea . We all know what happened to Montezuma when he meet Cortés in Mexico so many 100 of years ago . "
For those that do n’t know , the Spanish forcefulness - led by Cortés - slaughter the unarmed Aztecs until “ the blood of the warriors flowed like piddle ” , which does n’t sound like an ideal outcome of the first contact with exotic living . Kaku has expand on the mind in the past , explicate that though he believe that alien life will mostly be passive - given that the signatures we are probable to find will be of civilizations thousands or perhaps million of years in advance of us - that does n’t intend that we should gamble announcing ourselves to the universe .
" We can not take the chance , " hesaid in 2018 . " We should not endeavor to advertise our universe to alienate life in outer space because of the fact that we do n’t sleep with their purpose . "
The danger , he conceive , is not that aliens will be " evil " per se , but more that they might not care about us at all . He compare our position in the world to that of a deer in the forest . While hunters in the timberland pose a threat to deer , the real risk come from developer who might pave over the forest and destroy their environment .
" In fact , if you read the novel War of the Worlds the Martians in HG Wells seminal novel were not evil in the sense they wanted to excruciate us and they desire to do all sorts of barbaric thing to humanity , " he lend . " No , we were just in the fashion . "
