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METI to Send Messages to Extraterrestrials

POSTED ON DECEMBER 28, 2016 IN SCIENCE | 119 VIEWS | LEAVE A RESPONSE

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

We call in peace.
Dont shoot!
Got milk?

Take your time you have until 2018 to decide. Thats when a new organization called Messaging Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (METI) plans
to begin sending messages to Proxima b, a planet orbiting nearby Proxima Centauri, followed by similar signals aimed at other planets that
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appear to be candidates for supporting extraterrestrial life forms that can hear.

If METI sounds familiar, thats because its just one letter and a 180-degree opposite philosophy away from SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence Institute in Mountain View, California. METI, based in San Francisco, was formed by Douglas Vakoch, the former director of
Interstellar Message Composition at SETI. He started METI in 2015 and is now 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.

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POSTED IN SCIENCE | TAGGED EXTRATERRESTRIAL, SETI

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