[ExI] 234 stars with "inteligent" laser pulses

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:00 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19 October 2016 at 17:18, Will Steinberg  wrote:
> > I think that if the pulses are indeed from ETI, humans probably don't
> have
> > the current capacity to guess what their real cause/purpose is.  Trying
> to
> > fit ET behavior to contemporary human knowledge is bound to be wrong.
>
> If the ET message had a 'Respond' button that claimed it would send a
> copy of the Encyclopedia Galactica, should we click it?


Sure, so long as you could be certain that whatever received it would treat
it only as data, not executable code.  (Which, unfortunately, is not the
case for most Web browsers - but there are ways to be certain, if the
potential message is important enough.)
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