Humanity finding 'alien signal' could start World War Three on earth, scientists warn
dailystar.co.ukalien signal ' could start World War Three on earth, scientists have warned. Boffins have been discussing the dangers of sending out signals into space, and listening for replies, with fears that any contact could result in humans fighting among ourselves.
A study by geophysicist Kenneth Wisian and religious studies expert John Traphagan, suggests that knowledge of alien technology "if wielded solely by one nation here on Earth might enable it to dominate the world" READ MORE: Meeting aliens could trigger world war on Earth, experts say in chilling warning However, a paper published in the journal Space Policy , critiquing the study says, these fears are unfounded and highly unlikely due to the nature of interstellar communication.
The author of the space policy paper, and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Penn State Extra-terrestrial Intelligence Center, Jason T.
Wright, told Newsweek that a scenario where a signal will contain that type of technical information is "pretty unlikely".He said that even if a signal did contain info on how to build new technologies, perhaps even military technologies, "there's not much governments could do to get a monopoly on that information". To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here . "A signal from space will be available to anyone on Earth with a satellite dish, so there's not much point in, for instance, sending the army in to take over a radio telescope facility," he said.According to Wright, the ways people would react to that information are hard to predict, meaning that governments might mistakenly think sending in the army is a good idea."We argue to prevent that we need to make sure policymakers and.
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