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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 takyon on Monday January 02 2017, @05:30PM
I don't think I even have to mention that many of these METI efforts involve transmitting... tweets.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday January 02 2017, @08:08PM
many of these METI efforts involve transmitting... tweets.
Fast-forward a few years, sufficient for round-trip signal. Suddenly, one night at the radio telescope, all the equipment starts lighting up. Once decoded, a booming alien voice comes over the equipment:
"People of earth! Greetings! We are eager to make contact with someone named 'realDonaldTrump', who apparently is one of the greatest and most intelligent of your species! Please do not send this communication to Mexicans and Muslims, who all seem quite scary. We hope that Ms. Kelly has recovered from 'bleeding out of her whatever', though we've enjoyed Ellen DeGeneres's celebrity selfies. We too wish Bradley had a longer arm, though we also, like 'realDonaldTrump', have tiny hands. Please tell 'realDonaldTrump' that we want to communicate soon. #TinyHandsAcrossTheGalaxy P.S. The dress is obviously White and Gold."