Great to have so much interaction from the thread I did yesterday about #GameTheory strategies for the detection of #ExtraTerrestialIntelligence.
https://astrodon.social/@eamonn_kerins/109327400145858571
Maybe every Friday should be #AlienFriday!
Thought it'd be useful to get to know the views of people tuning into these posts. So, below, a thread of 7 polls of your views on #SETI.
They'll stay up for a week. If you'd like them to have a statistical rigor that #ProfJohnCurtis would be proud of then please #boost to others.
Do you think there is, or ever has been, life on other worlds that we would recognise as intelligent?
Is it worthwhile listening out for the possibility of signals transmitted by an alien civilisation?
Do you think evidence for alien life of some kind will be discovered within the next 50 years?
If scientists become sure that they have received a genuine signal from an intelligent extraterrestrial civilisation, how would you wish them to communicate this news?
Would you consider an announcement of contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial civilisation to be
How do you feel about the idea of humans deliberately sending their own signals into space so that they could be discovered by another alien civilisation?
@eamonn_kerins of those who do not like it, how many have read Dark Forest?
