Alien hunters 'should look for artificial intelligence'
BBC
22-Aug-2010 (one comment)

A senior astronomer has said that the hunt for alien life should take into account alien "sentient machines".

Seti, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, has until now sought radio signals from worlds like Earth.

But Seti astronomer Seth Shostak argues that the time between aliens developing radio technology and artificial intelligence (AI) would be short.

Writing in Acta Astronautica, he says that the odds favour detecting such alien AI rather than "biological" life.

Many involved in Seti have long argued that nature may have solved the problem of life using different designs or chemicals, suggesting extraterrestrials would not only not look like us, but that they would not at a biological level even work like us.

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by oktaby on Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:22 AM PDT

Now that's fresh thinking. Mix that with dark matter we just found to be most of what we have yet to look at, and we end up with a puzzle inside an enigma wrapped in a conundrum. However, no rush to find all the answers.

Come to think of it islamic regime is way ahead of SETI, NASA and even aliens. They have long since developed alternative life forms. The technical term for it is Basiji; AKA mollazadeh, chagookesh, Namard… Typically they do not think or act like biological life forms. In that sense, they are sentient. Albeit more exotic than any we may discover in far out galaxies.

Beam me up Scottie.

Over & Out. 

OKtaby 


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