But according to Drake’s equation, there’s a good chance, statistically speaking, that intelligent aliens are out there somewhere – even if the stars would have to align for us to find and contact each other, given the vastness of our galaxy and the enormous distance between planets.
“Finding life or making contact will always be highly unlikely until the day we do. [it]“says John Zarnecki, Emeritus Professor of Space Science at the Open University in the UK.
“It reminds me of exoplanets: as a young scientist, it was something we talked about, and we all suspected that exoplanets were out there, but there was no way to find one because it was technically much too difficult.”
We now know that exoplanets exist, and some are even potential candidates for life because they host water.
So with the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life and the remaining possibility of our encountering it, it’s worth considering how we might react if we ever make contact – especially since an intelligent extraterrestrial species is likely to be very different from ours. .
Non-human rights
The writers don’t seem to have too much hope that humans treat aliens very well. Perhaps it is because our record of granting rights to the inhabitants of this planet, human or otherwise, has been so poor throughout history, despite international legal conventions that are supposed to protect them.
The granting of inalienable and universal rights – that is, the rights guaranteed to everyone, no matter what – has been enshrined by the international community in law through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. man in 1948 after the horrors of World War II.
However, with the exception of sanctions, there are limited ways to enforce these rights, even for humans. While these laws state that people are meant to have rights like freedom and freedom from slavery, granted to each of us from birth to death, some political philosophers have suggested that in practice these do not only really exist on paper.
