Post-Detection SETI Protocols and METI: The Time Has Come to Regulate Them Both

Re:Post-Detection SETI Protocols and METI: The Time Has Come... by YeGoblynQueenne on Saturday February 11, 2017 @07:42PM (#13625850)

Yes, that looks like an awful paper.

However, pardon me but why should "the president" (of the US, I presume?) be the person to report first contact to? Is the US president somehow representing the entire species, now?

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Re:Post-Detection SETI Protocols and METI: The Time Has Come... by throwaway7645 on Sunday February 12, 2017 @09:12AM (#13628370)

I'm guessing because most SETI research is done in the states and partially financed by taxpayer money. I don't know the specifics, but at first contact they would be an advisory panel to the president and government and our government would hopefully disseminate the data from our receivers to other nations.

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Re:Post-Detection SETI Protocols and METI: The Time Has Come... by sverige on Saturday February 11, 2017 @09:08PM (#13626214)

I was going to ask how anyone could be "likely not qualified" to speculate about life existing on other planets, since there's absolutely no evidence that such life exists.

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Re:Post-Detection SETI Protocols and METI: The Time Has Come... by pjc50 on Sunday February 12, 2017 @06:44AM (#13627931)

Well, the author is a movie producer and the US president always represents the world in the movies, so ...

(I believe this is called "cultural hegemony")

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Re:Post-Detection SETI Protocols and METI: The Time Has Come... by YeGoblynQueenne on Sunday February 12, 2017 @10:23AM (#13628724)

Correction: the US president always represents the world in Hollywood movies.

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