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"We must send Messages to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (METIs)," says Zoe Rodriguez in the latest issue of Vassar's The Miscellany News. "It is a scientific imperative."

Messaging aliens is our scientific imperative The Earth has ears. These instruments are aimed towards the sky with colossal reflector dishes, some up to 500m in diameter. Scattered over the globe in China, Australia, South Africa, Europe and North America, these radio telescopes hide from interfering signals, existing in remote locations. What

Last chance for Australians to send message to the universe on Voyager project’s 50th anniversary Following in the wake of the original Golden Records, a new deep-space delivery hopes to introduce a ‘mostly harmless’ humanity to alien life

The ‘panzoic effect’: the benefits of thinking about alien life | Psyche Ideas Reflecting on the potential for extraterrestrial life can inspire awe and have a profound effect on your worldview

The Search for Alien Artifacts Is Coming Into Focus From surveys of the pre-Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of alien technology.

The act of even looking for life on other worlds CAN benefit our own. There’s a term to describe this, called the Panzoic effect. Read more about it here:

The ‘panzoic effect’: the benefits of thinking about alien life | Psyche Ideas Reflecting on the potential for extraterrestrial life can inspire awe and have a profound effect on your worldview

Fireflies in plain sight, you say? An interesting idea…

Advanced alien civilizations could be communicating 'like fireflies' in plain sight, researchers suggest A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our search for extraterrestrial life.

As it says in this video, perhaps we are at this moment in time acting as the “mapmakers” for finding life in the cosmos. What do you think?

How close are we to finding alien life? | David Kipping "There's a long history of people claiming planets which look Earth-like, Earth 2.0, Earth twins."Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com...

Why might cloudy worlds make it easier to find life? Particularly when you might think clouds could make it more difficult…

Aerial aliens: Why cloudy worlds might make detecting life easier Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger spoke with Big Think about how "the colors of life" could leave detectable traces on distant planets.

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) concept is currently being discussed and technologies are being developed for it. Will be interesting to monitor this further:

NASA funds new tech for upcoming 'Super Hubble' to search for alien life: 'We intend to move with urgency' The observatory will combine tech from NASA's most powerful space telescopes.

The detection of molecular imprints is important in detecting life elsewhere. More on it and how it’s done…

How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets Observatories could identify gases potentially associated with life in the atmospheres of other worlds.