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Do We Need a Special Language to Talk to Aliens?

Do We Need a Special Language to Talk to Aliens?

Do We Need a Special Language to Talk to Aliens?

Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer

November 7, 20198m 33s

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In May 2018, a radar facility in Tromsø, Norway trained its antennas on GJ237b, a potentially habitable exoplanet located 12 light years from Earth. Over the course of three days, the radar broadcast a message toward the planet in the hopes that there might be something, or someone, there to receive it. Each message consisted of a selection of short songs and a primer on how to interpret the contents.

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