In October of 2022, METI is sending a signal to the Trappist-1 Solar System…a system with possibly THREE Earthlike planets that lies only 39 light years away.
HOWEVER, given how little we’ve actually been looking for evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations, do we really want to start broadcasting? If ET isn’t friendly, what threat could they represent?
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The career hazards of studying Extraterrestrial Civilizations
https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/our-ego-trip-in-the-cosmos-8265b55e3232
Some examples of strange alien stars
https://www.sciencealert.com/our-galaxy-has-a-shocking-array-of-really-strange-stars
Unexplained signals from the center of our Galaxy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2360
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