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⚡️Prepare for alien encounter now before it's too late, warn scientists.
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❓“We can't talk to most of the creatures on Earth in an intelligent way. How are we going to talk to intelligent civilisations? I'm not sure we'll ever understand”. Read more ⤵️.
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William Borucki, a former Nasa space scientist, added: “When I look at how Hollywood portrays contact, one of the things that I think is unreal, is that people that can readily communicate and have similar ambitions, similar responses".
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Learning how to decipher an alien language or method of communication is likely to be one of the major hurdles that experts will need to consider.
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🤝The Royal Society held a Scientific Discussion Meeting on "The detection of extra-terrestrial life and the consequences for science and society" in 2010 but there has been no global agreement on how to handle contact.
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Currently, the only existing agreed "contact" protocols for encountering alien life were drawn up by the SETI community itself in 1989, and have not been revised since 2010. But they focus entirely on scientific conduct.
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🛸Although investigators concluded that there was no evidence the objects had come from outer space, or a foreign adversary, they said that most could not be explained.
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Last year, the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force released a report into 144 UFO incidents between 2004 and 2021, many of which were spotted by military pilots.
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🗣“We need to coordinate our expert knowledge not only for assessing the evidence but also for considering the human social response, as our understanding progresses and what we know and what we don’t know is communicated. And the time to do this is now.”.
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🗣Dr John Elliott, honorary research fellow in the School of Computer Science, said: “Will we ever get a message from ET? We don’t know. We also don’t know when this is going to happen. “But we do know that we cannot afford to be ill prepared”.
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🌍The team warn that although there are measures in place for dealing with threats posed by asteroid impacts, there is no agreed response if a radio signal were picked up from another intelligent lifeform.
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👽The University of St Andrews has joined forces with the UK SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research Network to establish protocols and procedures if aliens are found.
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🛸Prepare for alien encounter now before it's too late, warn scientists. Aliens could get in touch tomorrow and we must know what to say to them, scientists have warned, as they launched a new research hub to prepare humanity for first contact.
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Warmer springs are leaving birds hungry because they hatch after the caterpillar population has peaked, experts have warned.
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Drinking more than five glasses of wine a week 'could knock years off life'
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Devon village is rising 2cm a year, and scientists have no idea why
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Sitting at desk all day may damage brain and raise dementia risk, study suggests
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Jupiter's giant cyclones are revealed by stunning Nasa imagery
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Night owls more likely to die earlier than morning larks, first study finds
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