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By SETH BORENSTEIN<abbr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423952886787_1388" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12.1000003814697px;">February 13, 2015 2:25 PM






.`......Astronomers have their own version of the single person's dilemma: Do you wait by the phone for a call from that certain someone? Or do you make the call yourself and risk getting shot down?



Instead of love, of course, astronomers are looking for alien life, and for decades, they have sat by their telescopes, waiting to hear from E.T. It didn't happen, and so now some of them want to beam messages out into the void and invite the closest few thousand worlds to chat or even visit......`

`.....And this week several prominent space experts, including Space X founder Elon Musk and planet hunter Geoff Marcy, started a petition cautioning against sending out such messages, saying it is impossible to predict whether extraterrestrial life will be benign or hostile.`




http://news.yahoo.com/call-cosmos-se...183206479.html


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