SETI's Search For Alien Life Has Entered A New Era - Big Think

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has come a long way since the pursuit began in the early 20th century, and Adam Frank enumerates the gee-whiz, whiz-bang technology and theories driving today's survey of the stars with the intention of confirming we are not alone. Paul Glister, on the other hand, focuses on a more specific advancement in Biofinder — A Remote Sensing Solution For Detecting Life. Paul isn't citing Targ and Swann, but up-and-coming technologies so sensitive they could detect microbial life on the frozen wasteland of Mars or floating above Venus's hellish surface. As a proof of concept, these mavericks have used the same techniques and gadgetry on Earth and it's pretty damned cool. Yet if we detect intelligent extraterrestrial entities do we send cat pictures, dank memes, or upload the total contents of Wikipedia? Just like any classic story of first encounters, why not poetry? Becky Ferreira just learned How To Write Poetry To Communicate With Aliens through the magic of Lincos. While we'd be better off not beaming "I wandered lonely as a Berserker probe", Richard Carter's Signals book is a scientific art project with the aim of determining if there's something universal to the human experience. (CS)

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