Edward Snowden: We May Never Spot Space Aliens Thanks to Encryption
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The US government whistleblower Edward Snowden believes encryption might make it difficult or even impossible to distinguish signals from alien species from cosmic background radiation. On Friday night, Snowden appeared from Moscow on the astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk podcast, via a robot video link called a “beam remote presence system”. Snowden said, as human and alien societies get more sophisticated and move from “open communications” to encrypted communication, the signals being broadcast will quickly stop looking like recognisable signals. Snowden said, alien messages would be so encrypted that it would render them unrecognisable, “indistinguishable to us from cosmic microwave background radiation”. In that case, humanity would not even realise it had received such communications. “Only,” Tyson replied jovially, “if they have the same security problems as us.” http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/19/edward-snowden-aliens-encryption-neil-degrasse-tyson-podcast http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by Wochit using http://wochit.com
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Use smoke signals instead of radio signals. That will help you.
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They're above us right now, watching and studying us. Why would they let us know of their presence? We're probably not the most rational, pacifistic beings they have met so why do so many people believe that alien contact would happen just like in the movies with one giant mothership hovering over a city. I love it when people say they couldn't get here because of the vast distances between stars, like their ability to travel among the stars is subject to OUR current understanding of space travel.
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