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First Contact
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Maybe the aliens are looking for the civilisations that don’t send out the SETI signals.
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A more ambitious bet would be to learn from what we imagine a more mature civilization might have attempted. To take the small scientific leap and allow the possibility ‘Oumuamua was extraterrestrial technology is to give humanity the small nudge toward thinking like a civilization that could have left a lightsail buoy for our solar system to run into. It is to nudge us not just to imagine alien spacecraft but to contemplate the construction of our own such craft.
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― Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
― Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
