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New Group to Send Messages to

Extraterrestrials
December 29, 2016 Paul Seaburn

If given the opportunity to send a message to intelligent beings on another planet, what
would you say?

We call in peace.
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Take your time you have until 2018 to decide. Thats when a new organization called
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Messaging Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (METI) plans to begin sending messages to
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Proxima b, a planet orbiting nearby Proxima Centauri, followed by similar signals aimed at
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If METI sounds familiar, thats because its just one letter and a 180-degree opposite Modern Mysteries Spirituality
philosophy away from SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute in Mountain MU News UFO Phenomenon
View, California. METI, based in San Francisco, was formed by Douglas Vakoch, the former Natural World Video
director of Interstellar Message Composition at SETI. He started METI in 2015 and is now News
planning workshops in Paris and St. Louis as well as fundraising efforts to get the $1 million
he says METI will need annually to build a transmitter and start blasting Earthly greetings to
unsuspecting ETs.

If we want to start an exchange over the course of many generations, we

want to learn and share information.

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Exchange and share are controversial actions, especially when we do neither that well
within our own species. What do we say to an alien species after we say Hello? Is Hello
even a proper greeting?

Babbling babies are not always appreciated during adult conversation.

Listening and learning is how children become adults, and why not try that for
a while?

Whos calling us babbling babies? Andrew Fraknoi, chair of the astronomy department at
Foothill College in Los Altos Hills. He gets no argument from Stephen Hawking, who earlier
this year predicted dire consequences from responding to alien signals or planning a meet-
and-greet.

We should be wary of answering back. Meeting an advanced civilization could

be like Native Americans encountering Columbus that didnt turn out so
well.

While humans have been unwittingly sending signals into space since the invention of radio
and intentionally including messages on space probes like Pioneer 10 and 11, METI will be
the first effort to concentrate a steady stream of messages at one location in space over a
long period. Stephen Hawking may fear the idea, but Seth Shostak, senior astronomer with
SETI, likes it.

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Id be happy to see this done. I think theres something to be learned, nothing

to be feared, and at least the possibility of discovering something truly
revolutionary: We have company nearby.

Some even wax poetic about the idea. Heres METI treasurer Dalia Rawson, a former ballet
dancer and current managing director of the Silicon Valley Ballet

By reflecting on how we can communicate what it means to be human to

someone who is not human, we view ourselves differently. By looking at our
bodies, our movements, and our dance through the eyes of an alien, we gain
a renewed appreciation of what it means to be uniquely human.

Is Dalia suggesting we blast our neighbors with dance music? Send Bieber to Proxima b?
Future generations may agree with Stephen Hawking.

That didnt turn out so well.

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Did you get my message?

TAGS: alien, alien communications, Astronomy, extraterrestrial, METI, Proxima Centauri, Proxima-B, Science,

SETI, space, Stephen Hawking, technology, transmitter

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Paul Brisset
I just read a great novel about this: Three-Body Problem by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. I
would not send out any messages. The French say pour vivre heureux, vivons cachs.

BW
It seems pointless. World radio and television signals have been emitting for decades.

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