Meet The Scientist Who Is Preparing For Humanity's First Contact With Aliens - Motherboard Vice

Spoiler — It's not Avi Loeb. Now that you're aware of that, hang around for Becky Ferreira's chat with Mike Garrett on the protocols to tell humanity we've detected aliens, the importance of full (pardon the term) disclosure, and why no one can be certain what exactly we'll find out there in the cosmos. Fortunately humans are a flexible lot who are eager to make new friends, which is why Tim Binnall's discovery of a New Survey Finding Nearly Two-Thirds Of Americans Believe In Extraterrestrials is so intriguing. Moreso the American perspective on extraterrestrials is surprising, considering the previous administration's draconian policies against earthbound aliens. While it seems nobody's going to "build a wall" or a Dyson sphere anytime soon, IKEA's Preparing For Extraterrestrials With Assembly Manuals For Aliens. While this is a bit of fun, replete with pictures to entertain, Toan Mai and Lynne Myers illustrate how humanity needs to appreciate the necessity of, and design principles of, conveying ideas between species. To riff on Chekov's Gun, we began the article mentioning Avi Loeb and we're rounding it out with A Note On Avi Loeb's Thesis Concerning The Artificiality Of 'Oumuamua. Catch the fun as Bryan Sentes handily deconstructs a Harvard professor's thesis into its implausible constituent parts. (CS)

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