“Ninety-eight percent of astronomers and SETI researchers, including myself, think that METI [Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence] is potentially dangerous, and not a good idea,” says Dan Werthimer, a SETI researcher at the University of California at Berkeley. “It’s like shouting in a forest before you know if there are tigers, lions, and bears or other dangerous animals there.”
Link: We just sent a message to try to talk to aliens on another world
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