Scientists Working on Official ‘Alien Contact Protocol’
November 5th, 2022Via: Live Science:
If extraterrestrial life sent us a message tomorrow, how would humanity respond? According to researchers, we don’t know yet — and that’s a problem.
That’s why, for the first time in 35 years, a team of policy experts and scientists have united to establish a set of alien-contact protocols for the entire world to follow in the event of a sudden encounter with E.T.
“Science fiction is awash with explorations of the impact on human society following discovery of, and even encounters with, life or intelligence elsewhere,” John Elliot, a computer scientist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, said in a statement. Elliot is the coordinator of the University of St. Andrews’ newly established SETI Detection Hub, the cross-disciplinary organization that will establish the new alien contact protocol.
According to Elliot, the new research group will “go beyond thinking about the impact on humanity” of a potential alien encounter and start focusing on how we should respond instead.
