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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
Diagram of the shape of a synestia – like a red blood cell or a doughnut

Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape

25 May 2017

Many rocky worlds may have spent time as a newly named planetary form called a synestia – a loosely connected blob of molten rock and dust with a dented middle

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