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I'm working on a universal language to let us speak to aliens

30 May 2018

It's time to find a new way to speak across the stars, says Douglas Vakoch, head of METI, the body dedicated to messaging possible alien civilisations
The message we're sending to nearby aliens is no threat to Earth

The message we're sending to nearby aliens is no threat to Earth

20 November 2017

Critics fear provoking hostile extraterrestrials by beaming messages to our closest exoplanets but there's no need to worry, says METI president Douglas Vakoch

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