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(WHTM) — It was a radio signal that was so strange some people wondered if it came from an alien civilization. On November 28, 1967, astronomy graduate student Jocelyn Bell noticed a regular radio pulse picked up by the newly built Interplanetary Scintillation Array of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridge England. (Bell helped […]
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Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Alamy / GettyWith new probes, telescopes, and radio antennae, scientists are intensifying their search for alien civilizations. But it’s possible human civilization isn’t ready to meet extraterrestrials.There’s no global plan (at least, that the public knows of). No consensus among spacefaring countries on how we should follow up on first contact with an alien civilization. No treaty compelling Earth governments to behave properly toward our new extraterre
Scientists expect the Voyager spacecraft to outlive Earth by at least a trillion years. NASA/JPL-CalTechVoyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar space. Both Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, carry little pieces of humanity in the form of their Golden Records. These messages in a bottle include spoken greetings in 55 languages, sounds and imag