Is a SETI virus just science fiction?... "Computer" virus contamination of a SETI signal?
Apparently, physicist Richard Carrigan is worried about alien computer hackers. I shouldn’t make fun, because he knows about things like "hyperon physics, the magnetic monopole conjecture, high energy scattering, pi and mu mesic atoms," and other things that sound like we’ll destroy the universe with by futzing around with them. And we should pay attention, because we all know fer sure that alien and Terran computers are totally compatible, for that simple fact got us out of this mess:
More likely, though, is that when evil ETs start hacking our computers, our in-boxes are gonna fill up with crap like this:
Dear Earth Creature,I am Xqwo Zordlorf, Keeper of the Specie of the High Royal Family of Slkikl Sector. I have an important business proposition for you.
On Gytiu 49th, Galacta-Year 32,095, as you are undoubtedly aware, battle fleets from the Uhjwq Void descended upon the ancestral homeworld of the Slkikl royals, driving their eminences from their beloved and glorious gaseous swamps before they could withdraw the accumulated wealth of star systems conquered under their benevolent rule. I, as their loyal and humble servant, have secreted these funds, in the total of Z$67 yeptillion, in unnumbered accounts on the P*jkl finance planet, and as I endeavor to retain the secrecy and solvency of these funds for my imperial masters, I humbly ask for your assistance...
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