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Scientists are getting ready for when extraterrestrial life contacts Earth and sends a message. According to a group of scientists, researchers and scientists have come together to create a set of guidelines for people all over the world to follow if and when such an encounter occurs.
Computer scientist John Elliot stated that science fiction is “awash with investigations of the implications on human civilization upon discovery of, and even interactions with, life or intelligence elsewhere” in a statement from the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
In order to establish impact analyses, protocols, procedures, and treaties that will enable a responsible response, the university has established a new Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Post-Detection Hub. This hub will serve as a coordinating centre for bringing together diverse expertise across the sciences and the humanities. Additionally, Mr. Elliott oversees SETI Detection Hub.
He continues by saying that the new research team will “move beyond thinking about the impact on mankind” and start concentrating on how we should react in the event of an alien encounter. He continues, “And the time to do this is now.”
Currently, only those “contact” methods that were developed by the SETI community itself in 1989 and last modified in 2010 are accepted for usage. Because they are only concerned with general scientific practise, they are ineffective for managing in practise the entire process of searching, handling candidate evidence, confirming detections, post-detection analysis and interpretation, and potential response.
The protocol’s key practical advice for scientists is to look for guidance from the United Nations or another regulating organisation, according to a story in Live Science.
The new SETI detection hub would scan signals for potential communications sent by extraterrestrial life forms and develop a framework for deciphering those signals rather than focusing on connecting with extraterrestrial life. They will also create impact evaluations, deliver papers describing the effects of particular policies, and develop methods and agreements for responding to fictitious alien messengers.
