Interstellar communication. IX. Message decontamination is impossible
Abstract
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.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- February 2018
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1802.02180
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1802.02180
- Bibcode:
- 2018arXiv180202180H
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics;
- Physics - Popular Physics
- E-Print:
- 3 pages, comments welcome