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Calling ET: Your chance to send a message to alien life
February 9, 2010, The Telegraph
To mark 50 years since the launch of the SETI - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - programme, it's your chance to write a message that will be radioed into space.
ET: waiting for your call? Photo: UNIVERSAL/EVERETT/REX
If you had the chance to send a message into space, what would it say? "Greetings, fellow sentient beings"? "We come in peace"? "Hi… we've kind of messed up our planet, and we wondered if by chance anyone out there had a spare one?"
The subject of alien life – and its presence or absence in the universe – has been moving up the agenda recently, thanks to the approaching anniversary of the day in April 1960 when Frank Drake, an astronomer at Cornell University, pointed a radio telescope towards Tau Ceti, a suitably Sun-like star in our galactic neighbourhood. Drake was looking for unusual radio transmissions, which could indicate the presence of intelligent life. And even though the search came up empty, it was a good enough idea to kickstart the SETI programme – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
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