Extraterrestrial intelligence

“It’s definitely getting closer.” How SETI Expands Its Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Exclusive)

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To discover potentially intelligent life out there in the great beyond, you must first cast a net wide using a range of techniques and technologies. Each “fishing expedition” for ET includes close-in studies of life in extreme environments here Soilto help us recognize signatures we may encounter Mars or diving deep through the icy shell … Read more

Will we ever be able to communicate with aliens?

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It’s called xenolinguistics: looking at the science of alien language. Biologists, anthropologists, linguists and other experts specializing in language and communication have begun to explore what non-human, alien language might look like. It is likely that such thinking gives rise to reflection on the fabricated Klingon languagethe cosmic ‘Klingonese’ babble spoken by one of the … Read more