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Why Seti Researchers Must Change the Way They Announce First Contact


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SETI@home

Credit: SETI@home

One of humanity’s most significant events will be the discovery of intelligent life elsewhere in universe. Back in the 1980s, a group of astronomers involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence became concerned about the way news of this first contact might spread around the world.

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