Every 80’s and 90’s kid remembers their favorite childhood blockbuster E.T, the Extra-Terrestrial. The story of an alien who was abandoned in California and had to experience the curiosity, love, compassion, friendship as well as the aggressive, threatening, and horrible aspects of humankind. This 1982 Universal Pictures film is a science fiction movie, but does it have to be science fiction? Could there be a day that we, the human species, find and communicate with an extraterrestrial being? Well, that day should come sooner than later as astronomers, artist, linguistics, anthropologist, mathematicians and other professionals have the ability to fabricate messages to send into outer space. Instead international communities question this initiative …show more content…
According to Shostak this claim is an” unwarranted fear. [And] If their interest in our planet is for something valuable that our planet has to offer, there's no particular reason to worry about them now. If they're interested in resources, they have ways of finding rocky planets that don't depend on whether we broadcast or not. They could have found us a billion years ago." (____). Also Hawking, Musk and other scientist’s arguments for not phoning extraterrestrial is a logical fallacy. Dr. Derrick Pitts, Chief Astronomer and Direct of Fels Planetarium at The Franklin Institute, exclaimed that Hawking’s and Musk’s arguments are based on the assumption that these aliens project human qualities and attributes. However, the odds that these extraterrestrials evolved similar to humans is minuscule. And thus these alien species would not have the same biological and behavioral tendencies. Similarly, Dr. Nathalie Cabrol the head of SETI, Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Institute, stated "We tend to ask questions in the way we do. But what kind of thought process an alien civilisation may have, we really don’t know" (____). Dr. Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, agrees with Dr. Cabrol as he has stated, “I don't think you can put human views on to [Aliens]; that's a dangerous way of thinking. Aliens are alien. If they exist at all, we cannot assume they're like us"