2018/02/06 by Michael Hippke, John G. Learned, J. G. Learned +2 · 4 voices · 4 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Cellular Automata and Applications #Certainty #Computer science #Computer security #Distributed computing #Engineering #Epistemology #Existentialism #Fractal and DNA sequence analysis #Human decontamination #Law #Message passing #Political science #Space (punctuation) #Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life #Waste management #astro-ph.IM #physics.pop-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1802.02180
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · 3 pages, comments welcome
arxiv created 2018/02/06 · openalex publication_date 2018/02/06 · arxiv updated 2018/02/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A complex message from space may require the use of computers to display, analyze and understand. Such a message cannot be decontaminated with certainty, and technical risks remain which can pose an existential threat. Complex messages would need to be destroyed in the risk averse case.