With not less than 100 billion galaxies in our observable universe, astronomers have lengthy scanned the skies, in search of indicators of life past Earth.
But when an alien civilisation really despatched a message to us, what would occur subsequent? Would people have the right expertise or information to even decipher it? These are a few of the questions being requested as a part of a simulation organised by the analysis group SETI, or Seek for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
The mission, often known as “A Register Area,” is a follow run for humanity’s first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. It was initiated final week when a deliberate interplanetary sign was beamed to radio telescopes on Earth from a European Area Company spacecraft orbiting Mars. Now it is as much as people to crack the code and translate it to the world. SETI has invited the general public to affix the problem-solving occasion through its Discord web page.
What wouldn’t it imply for humanity if scientists had been to discover a real sign from a complicated extraterrestrial civilisation? And who decides if we must always reply again?
As soon as deemed a fringe space of scientific examine, the seek for extraterrestrial intelligence has gained prominence lately because of highly effective new scientific devices, the expansion of exoplanet discoveries, and new radio telescope observatories which are sweeping the skies for anomalous indicators.
On this episode of The Stream, we’ll communicate to these concerned within the continued seek for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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