After decades of fruitless searching for extraterrestrial signals, scientists decided that it was time to try something different. To say "hello" first.
A new organization called METI (ie, Messaging Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, sending messages of extraterrestrial intelligence) is planning to send signals to distant planets, and not wait until someone sends them to the side of the Earth.
By 2018, the project is going to send a message by radio and laser rocky planets around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our system, and then to more distant worlds, being in hundreds or thousands of light-years.
This will be the first attempt to send a powerful humanity, repeated and intentional signals into space, and to the same stars for months or even years.
"If we want to start a conversation that will last for many generations, we must learn to comprehend the information and share it", - says Douglas Vakoch, president of the METI, formerly engaged in interstellar messages in SETI.
At the moment, part of the problem lies in how to create the perfect message to say "Hello." Of course, the project has caused a lot of criticism. Some ask, and if hostile aliens, do we need to let them know where we are? For example, the science fiction author David Brin and renowned physicist Stephen Hawking said that we should not draw attention to himself.
Other experts note that we should wait until we talk better, and then employ properly organized international groups with international consultations. "Babbling babies do not always look good when adults talk - says Andrew Frenknoy, head of the department of astronomy at the College Foothill. - Children become adults when learning and listening, so why is not do they? ". However, he also said: "If someone could send a message, decide that it is better just to take them, space would indeed be a very quiet place."
From Popular Mechanics
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