Since the creation of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program, many scientists have been concerned with the question: what would happen if we detected a signal from extraterrestrial intelligence? Special protocols have been developed for this, but the question of how exactly this discovery will affect people is still open.
In 2020, a paper by Kenneth Visian and John Traphagen suggested that there was a risk of finding extraterrestrial life that had not been sufficiently explored before. Vizian and Traphagen argued that the danger of detection did not come from the aliens themselves, but from the fact that the advantage of accessing this message could cause earthly problems, such as espionage, escalation of conflicts between states, and could even lead to “external “war. Read the full story here ▶
