What comes after “we come in peace”?
after several failed attempts; whether the regolith will make the journey to Earth has yet to be tested.
“Responsible” communication of extraterrestrial findings will be a major area of focus for the Post-Detection Hub in St Andrews.: “The potential discovery of microbial life will likely raise different types of concern that would follow the discovery of intelligent life — we are as yet entirely unprepared as a species for the latter. The time is thus right for consideration of humanity’s response — and responsibility — following the detection of both life and intelligence in the Cosmos.
Some of the first conversations about the concept of social media in the wake of alien arrival transpired at the Royal Society’s 2010 Scientific Discussion Meeting on the matter. Perhaps fortuitously, news surrounding the event would come to spawn the fictitious title of “alien ambassador,” misattributed to the then-director of the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs , Mazlan Othman.
The very work of analyzing radio signals and decoding an alien language “is an elaborate and time-consuming process” of which the Hub hopes to get ahead, Elliott explained. “Will we ever get a message from E.T.? We don’t know,” he continued. “We also don’t know when this is going to happen. But we do know that we cannot afford to be ill-prepared — scientifically, socially and politically rudderless — for an event that could turn into reality as early as tomorrow and which we cannot afford to mismanage.”
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