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Originally posted by john124
reply to post by Pixus
Is anyone else annoyed that it's just NASA that gets first access to data coming from these probes?
No, would you prefer somebody else to read your emails or text messages before you on the basis that aliens might have tapped into your inbox and left you a note?
Surely data which is important to the human race as a whole should be immediatley accessible by anyone with the means to receive and decode it?
Nobody credible is saying that this garbled signal is at all important to the human race.
Originally posted by ChrisBenoit
Originally posted by Pixus
Is anyone else annoyed that it's just NASA that gets first access to data coming from these probes? Surely data which is important to the human race as a whole should be immediatley accessible by anyone with the means to receive and decode it?
Is it actually possible to intercept data coming from the various probes we have out there? Or would that be considered a "risk to national security"?
Also, first post.
When I buy milk from the store, generally I get the first glass.
I don't offer it to some stranger on the street, because after all, I paid for that milk.
It's their probe, the information they receive back from it, however flawed or "Critical" it may be, is still there's to study first.
Whatever they choose to do with it after that is their discretion.