11/27/05

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SETI Could Set Up Attack on Earth

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Richard Carrigan, a particle physicist at the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, fears the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) may be putting the earth at risk. As reported in the Guardian, Carrigan frets that alien radio signals could pose a security risk. The report cites a 2003 paper entitled "Do potential Seti signals need to be decontaminated?" but Carrigan's website has more details. Basically, he's calling for isolation of SETI computers and additional security measures. He writes, "To paraphrase Cocconi and Morrison for the possibility of a malevolent SETI signal …the probability of a contaminated SETI signal is difficult to estimate; but if we never consider it the chance of infection is not zero." That's about the same probability of being struck by falling airplane parts.

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Marti said:

Hey, that's the premise of the CBS TV show "Threshold". An alien signal has infected a small group of sailors and they in turn attempt to infect the rest of the world.

November 28, 2005 6:32 AM
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