
Dr Douglas Vakoch: Should we try to contact aliens?
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Published: 16th December, 2020 at 19:55
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Dr Douglas Vakoch, President of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, talks about how and why we should signal our existence to alien civilisations.
In this week’s episode, we talk to Dr Douglas Vakoch, President of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or METI.
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We talk about whether we should be broadcasting messages into space to signal our existence to intelligent alien species.
We also discuss how we could create a message that an unknown species of alien could understand.
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Sara RigbyOnline staff writer, BBC Science Focus
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