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Tag Archives: Deterrence
MAD with Aliens? Interstellar deterrence and its implications
Previously, I made the case why space aliens, or ETIs (short for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligences) would probably not exterminate humanity out of fear of future competition from us, because a) interstellar warfare either is an uncertain business at best, or, b) … Continue reading
Posted in My publications, SETI, Aliens & Space
Tagged Aliens, Deterrence, ETIs, Interstellar War, METI, SETI
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Would E.Ts try to kill us off? (Nope. They’d be deterred.)
There has been some debate in the sciencey & science fictionish circles about whether searching for and contacting extra-terrestrial aliens is really such a great idea. No less a luminary than Stephen Hawking recently warned the humanity about the possible dangers … Continue reading
Posted in Notes in process, SETI, Aliens & Space
Tagged Deterrence, Research, SciFi, SETI, Space travel
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The unpublished notebooks of J. M. Korhonen 
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