To signal or not to signal, that is the question

Many believe there is life on other planets and some believe that aliens could already be living among us. Scientists now believe that they may have located a sector of the universe where a civilisation lives and wonder if contact should be made.

- Birjees Hussain

There are arguments for and against this. Some argue that it should be because, if they are an advanced civilisation, perhaps humans could learn something from them. Others argue that on no account should contact be made unless we know who they are, what they're like, how they live and how they survive; are they hostile, for example.

This desire to find life on other planets and the dream of finding it reminds me of so many movies. For example ‘Contact’ where the civilisation was advanced and friendly. So friendly that they even sent humans a blueprint to build a machine to visit them. Another was the cult movie ET with an innocent extra-terrestrial. This might be the reason many argue for the idea of making contact. But then there are countless movies in which the aliens are not friendly at all. Case in point are ‘War of the Worlds’, ‘Signs’ ‘Bird Box’, ‘Aliens’ and ‘Battle Los Angeles’, and the list Could do on. In these movies we humans had moved down a notch on the food chain.