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Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.) (Published 2017)

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  • Jun 28, 2017
  • #Space #Extraterrestriallife
Steven Johnson
@stevenbjohnson
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www.nytimes.com
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A new initiative to beam messages into space may be our best shot yet at learning whether we’re alone in the universe. There’s just one problem: What if we’re not?

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Maria Popova @MariaPopova · May 28, 2022
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Pioneering astrobiologist Frank Drake turns 92 today. Here is a wonderful @stevenbjohnson piece about his @SETIInstitute legacy and the hopeful, touchingly human longing to make contact with another life-form across the expanse of spacetime and probability
Maria Popova @MariaPopova · Sep 2, 2022
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Also do read @stevenbjohnson's absolutely magnificent profile of Dr. Drake and his life's work from a few years ago:
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