I was an early enthusiast for the SETI idea, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Many may know about it from the Carl Sagan novel and movie: Contact. Especially when it came 'home' by using spare computing cycles to look for signals from space that showed evidence of intelligent patterns. There is a new proposal afloat, called METI ... or Messages to Extraterrestrial Intelligence. (also called active SETI). This flips the goal. Its not about passively listening, but rather sending messages into space, some say shouting out our existence and making specific requests for communication. David Brin, futurist author, who we connected with at the Institute for the Future, writes about METI, and the dangers that many see.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
SETI meets METI
I was an early enthusiast for the SETI idea, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Many may know about it from the Carl Sagan novel and movie: Contact. Especially when it came 'home' by using spare computing cycles to look for signals from space that showed evidence of intelligent patterns. There is a new proposal afloat, called METI ... or Messages to Extraterrestrial Intelligence. (also called active SETI). This flips the goal. Its not about passively listening, but rather sending messages into space, some say shouting out our existence and making specific requests for communication. David Brin, futurist author, who we connected with at the Institute for the Future, writes about METI, and the dangers that many see.
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