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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 dry on Tuesday January 03 2017, @05:18AM
Read Footfall for one take on why and how beings from Alpha Centauri come to Earth to attack and hopefully take over.
Herd creatures with a surrender instinct fight wars differently and being the second intelligent life to evolve on their planet, have technology handed to them rather then discovering it (the predecessors left lots of directions engraved in boulders). Well done story with realistic aliens based on elephants rather then apes and mostly current technology plus fusion. The aliens having the high ground and dropping rocks is almost enough to win and would be if we fought wars as they do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footfall [wikipedia.org]