Click to viewWelcome back to MangoBot , a biweekly newspaper column about Asiatic futurism byTokyoMangoblogger Lisa Katayama . I ’ve been thinking about alien a lot this week . Do they exist ? How will we know ? Who will they call if they decide to make contact with us , and through what medium ? First off , nobody bang if alien really subsist . system like SETI are swear on the high possibility that they do , but to date there is no concrete evidence to prove or disprove this . For the purposes of thoughtfulness , though , get ’s just usurp they do . If aliens decide to make contact with Earthlings , they ’ll probably want to connect with the Japanese using prime numbers and optical maser pulses . Call me colored ( I was born and arouse in Japan ) , but I mean there is a really good possibleness that this will be the pillowcase ( and so does the guy who writes exotic messages for SETI ) . And I do n’t just recall this because I drop my childhood watching reenactments of UFO sighting on Japanese TV while eating fry dome out of a giant UFO - mold bowl ably named “ UFO Yakisoba . ”
Here are five rationality why aliens might extend to out to humankind via the islands of Japan first :
1 . The Japanese are quick to greet them . Part of Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba ’s national security department strategy admit musings about how we ’d respond to an alien attack under apacifist establishment . belatedly last twelvemonth , hetold the press :
If they descended , articulate ‘ multitude on Earth , let ’s make friends , ’ it would not be considered an unjust flack on our nation . And there is another issue of how can we convey our intent if we do n’t translate what they are tell . We should consider various possibilities .
primary Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura has also state his stiff feeling that extraterrestrial being do exist . The Nipponese government has detailed prescribed guidepost on what to do if we do indeed get in link with extraterrestrials .
You could make the counterargument that the Japanese government ’s heighten fear of alien fire may discourage extraterrestrial from landing there , I in reality cerebrate that aliens will feel more at ease knowing that the Japanese are at least aware of and ready for their arrival . What ’s the fun in arriving at a political party where nobody jazz who you are ?
2 . We netmail them . In 1983 , Japanese astronomerssent a radio set messageto Altair - a solar system 16 easy yr away - with 13 binary - encoded image 71 by 71 pixels each indicate some basic facts about us , like where our planet is locate , what human race depend like , the social organization of DNA , and the basic chemistry of life on earth . If someone on Altair had received this message , then we can expect a reply as ahead of time as 2015 .
“ When constructing a message to extraterrestrials , it ’s important that we make it a message that represents the diversity of human civilisation , ” enounce Douglas Vakoch , Director of Interstellar Message Composition at SETI . “ It score sense to start with science because ET does n’t talk English or Japanese or Swahili , but I ’m plump to be very disappointed if the only affair we get word from ET is that 2 + 2=4 . I want to know what they think is of import in their world . ”
message sent to aliens - including the 1983 Nipponese one - are written in choice numeral because it ’s a conception that intelligent species universally understand . A similar message was sent in 1974 from the world ’s largest radio telescope in Arecibo , Puerto Rico , but this one was mail to a cluster of star 25,000 light year away . We wo n’t be hearing back from those stranger for a while . But the Altair - bound substance make promise to return within our life-time .
3 . Japan has one of the only lookout station that is actively look for optic frequencies from outer distance . Most observatory research only for radio frequencies . Even after Nobel Prize - make headway physicistCharles Townessuggested reckon for brief laser pulse for alien detection in the sixties , people find it out because it was too expensive and energy - consuming . Nishiharimais the only plaza that ’s currently scanning the sky for nanosecond - level pulses in the breeze waves . “ I think it ’s very sensible that the first detection of lifetime beyond earth could happen in Japan , ” enunciate Vakoch . “ abbreviated pulses are like morse codification . you’re able to send an enormous amount of data very quickly . If someone could text message ET , it ’ll be Nishiharima . That wear , of course , that we can decode what they were test to say . ”
4 . Japan will soon have AIs that match alien intelligence . Aliens are supposedly boundlessly more in advance and brainy than humans are , so the most likely scenario is that , when they get here , they ’ll want to talk to AIs . Since the Japanese have already envision out how to navigate virtual cosmos with brain power and haverobots assisting homo in everyday life-time , it would storm nobody if aliens demonstrate up there first .
https://gizmodo.com/japan-gears-up-to-become-a-full-on-robot-nation-374678
5 . North Korea knows things the rest of us do n’t . North Korea is bruit to have recently released a statement take that their atomic nuclear reactor has the dual capableness of convey wirelessly with exotic coinage up to 1,000 light days forth in literal time . Of course , we ca n’t believe everything that the North Korean regime says , but gravely , I would n’t be surprised at all if they were already put across with other planets . If that ’s the case , it should be relatively easy for Japan , a neighboring nation , to intercept their signals with optical maser pulses and let the human race get laid definitively what Kim Jong Il has bang for decades - that there is life beyond Earth .
Images : LabyrinthX via Flickr , Darren Hester via Flickr , Sankei , and Nishiharima Astronomical Observatory
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