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Should We Send Signals To Aliens? | IFLScience The Big Questions

The question isn't can we send signals to aliens, but should we send them in the first place?

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Dr. Alfredo Carpineti

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Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.

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We don't know if life exists beyond Earth, but we're already sending out signals.

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We don’t know if life exists beyond Earth. If it does, we don’t know if these lifeforms have technology like us or maybe even better. Perhaps they could detect us? Despite the unknowns, humans have sent messages to the stars in an attempt to communicate with hypothetical aliens. 

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Host Dr Alfredo Carpineti speaks to Dr Vishal Gajjar, an astronomer with the SETI Institute, about should we, not just can we, actively message aliens and how we are already pretty noticeable to anything out there if they were looking too.

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