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How Would Humans Respond To First Contact From An Alien World?
Artist concept of an exoplanet. Credit: NASA
According to Star Trek lore, it is only 51 years until Earth’s first contact with an alien species. In the movie “Star Trek: First Contact,” Vulcans pay a visit to an Earth recovering from a war-torn period on April 5, 2063. (see the movie clip below if you aren’t familiar.) But will such a planet-wide, history-changing event ever really take place? If you are logical, like Spock and his Vulcan species, science points towards the inevitability of first contact. This is according to journalist Marc Kaufman, who is the science editor for the Washington Post and author of the book “First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for life Beyond Earth.” He says that from humanity’s point of view, first contact would be a “harbinger of a new frontier in a dramatically changed cosmos.”
What are some of the arguments for and against the likelihood of first contact ever taking place and what would the implications be?
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Post tags: Astrobiology, exoplanets, Marc Kaufman
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First contact has been and gone mate! Love Star Trek though