{"id":2108,"date":"2015-07-26T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2015-07-26T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T19:32:00","slug":"can-we-remove-human-insanity-from-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/2015\/07\/26\/can-we-remove-human-insanity-from-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Remove Human Insanity from the Universe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>Even if we somehow manage to destroy ourselves, we&#8217;ve been sending radio signals into space (purposefully or not) for over 100 years, since Marconi sent a transatlantic radio message in 1901. Most likely, the ability of civilizations to extract the Morse code letter &#8220;s&#8221; from the background noise of the universe will effectively impossible. Still, we&#8217;ve been beaming radio, radar, and TV transmissions for quite a while.<\/p>\n<p>If we destroy ourselves, our radio, TV, and some internet messages will still be traveling through space. Potentially to infect another civilization with our insanity.<\/p>\n<p>From the movie Men in Black<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000169\/?ref_=tt_trv_qu\"><span class=\"character\">Kay<\/span><\/a>: That is a lot of fun. It&#8217;s a universal translator. We&#8217;re not even supposed to have it, and I&#8217;ll tell you why&#8230; Human thought is so primitive it&#8217;s looked upon as an infectious disease in some of the better galaxies. That kind of makes you proud, doesn&#8217;t it? huh?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only way to prevent human insanity from spreading throughout space would be to create a black hole over 100 light years in diameter. There are 180+\u00a0<strong>notable<\/strong> stars with a 100 lightyear distance from Earth. We&#8217;d have to destroy all of them (and any life on planets around any of them.<\/p>\n<p>Not that we could do so at this point.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. Even if we somehow manage to destroy ourselves, we&#8217;ve been sending radio signals into space (purposefully or not) for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[942,922],"class_list":["post-2108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-science","tag-physics","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}