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on Monday January 02 2017, @04:03PM
from the sorry-for-the-delay-in-our-response dept.
from the sorry-for-the-delay-in-our-response dept.
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."
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Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b
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(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.
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