So time travel.
It's been less than a century since we've begun to listen for radio transmissions from out there.
We could simply be impatient, or could be in a period when everyone else is just Off-Air.
The unignorable thing is we've missed out on a good few hundred billion years of when somebody could've been broadcasting.
Admittedly, any vehicle or means to go some time back would have to be far out in orbit, and before it's decay, it would have to be sent on a trajectory which would eject it out the solar system all together while at the same time, whatever findings made, they would have to be left or sent somewhere close and safe enough for us to find the data some millions of years later and at an agreed, pre-determined position.
Somewhere which only the people behind the project would consider to look.
At the same time, there would have to be enough of these vehicles sent across so many specific dates, most all would have to be unmanned probes, and only the first few with people to leave back a couple of "Killroy Was Here" 's.
The other thing is how long would just listen, before deciding when to speak, and to who, should there even be anyone out there.
But that would be the greatest reason for the otherwise stupid idea of going back in time (If that is even possible). Or, going forward in time, to simply leave a radio station to broadcast that, again, "Killroy Was Here" to somebody else and long after we were gone, so as to not interfere with our own development once this whole idea was no longer relevant.
Listening before speaking. And if met with silence, to leave some Will, some Testament, for somebody else to read and maybe, if we can do any of this before killing ourselves, ask for a little intervention on a specific date, should anyone be advanced enough, and inclined enough, to stop us from pulling the trigger on that barrel in our collective mouth.
It's been less than a century since we've begun to listen for radio transmissions from out there.
We could simply be impatient, or could be in a period when everyone else is just Off-Air.
The unignorable thing is we've missed out on a good few hundred billion years of when somebody could've been broadcasting.
Admittedly, any vehicle or means to go some time back would have to be far out in orbit, and before it's decay, it would have to be sent on a trajectory which would eject it out the solar system all together while at the same time, whatever findings made, they would have to be left or sent somewhere close and safe enough for us to find the data some millions of years later and at an agreed, pre-determined position.
Somewhere which only the people behind the project would consider to look.
At the same time, there would have to be enough of these vehicles sent across so many specific dates, most all would have to be unmanned probes, and only the first few with people to leave back a couple of "Killroy Was Here" 's.
The other thing is how long would just listen, before deciding when to speak, and to who, should there even be anyone out there.
But that would be the greatest reason for the otherwise stupid idea of going back in time (If that is even possible). Or, going forward in time, to simply leave a radio station to broadcast that, again, "Killroy Was Here" to somebody else and long after we were gone, so as to not interfere with our own development once this whole idea was no longer relevant.
Listening before speaking. And if met with silence, to leave some Will, some Testament, for somebody else to read and maybe, if we can do any of this before killing ourselves, ask for a little intervention on a specific date, should anyone be advanced enough, and inclined enough, to stop us from pulling the trigger on that barrel in our collective mouth.
