http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/12/contact-with-proxmina-centauri-b
Douglas Vakoch, the former Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute, is launching the METI Initiative with one planet in mind: the recently discovered planet around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth (and thus the closest exoplanet.)
Vakoch says that METI has more than a few targets in mind, there are a few advantages to Proxima Centauri b.
"First, it's close to our solar system, keeping the time for a roundtrip exchange as short as possible," Vakoch says. "Second, some have suggested that this exoplanet is potentially habitable."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @04:22PM
wat
(Score: 3, Funny) by Megahard on Monday January 02 2017, @04:50PM
He renounced his membership in the human race? Sometimes I have thought of doing the same.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday January 02 2017, @05:04PM
I think, like Professor Hubert J Farnsworth, he's just announced that he doesn't want to live on this planet anymore. Or alternately, he's hoping there's intelligent life out in space somewhere because we seem to be fresh out of it on Earth.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 03 2017, @11:12PM
This Douglas Vakoch organism is not only a traitor to his species. He's a traitor to all life on Earth.