A new warning suggests that contact with extraterrestrial species could be the downfall of all life on planet Earth.
For centuries, we have been wondering whether we’re alone in the universe or not. With growing evidence of unidentified flying objects, of which some were released by the Defense Department in recent years, experts can’t help but wonder if aliens could already be among us.
While many of us try to imagine how our first encounter with extraterrestrial species would look like, a group of astronomers warned against reaching out to potential visitors from space.
As science writer and physicist Mark Buchanan warned in a Washington Post op-ed, an encounter with aliens could very well result not only in the end of the human race but all life on the plane.
While some astronomists argue that we could benefit greatly – in terms of science and technology – from an encounter with a more intelligent species, Buchanan says this could also prove very dangerous.
“Chances are, we should all be grateful that we don’t yet have any evidence of contact with alien civilizations,” he wrote as he compared the potential coming of an alien species to the Europeans’ arrival in North America.
In this case, the extraterrestrial species that would arrive would likely be technologically superior and capable of wiping us out with ease.
“Attempting to communicate with extraterrestrials, if they do exist, could be extremely dangerous for us,” he added.
Meanwhile, Joe Gertz of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence said that our attempts to make contact with aliens could result in the “reckless endangerment of all mankind, and be absolutely proscribed with criminal consequences, presumably as exercised at the national level, or administered through the International Court of Justice in The Hague.”
As Buchanan also believes, extraterrestrial species from far away could very well be much more advanced than us considering that our galaxy is not that old.
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