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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Bunker Gold: First contact – We’ll meet aliens soon, then what?
Description: In this week’s Bunker Gold we revisit an out of this world episode from May 2022…As scientists seek extraterrestrial life, what would we do if we actually found it? How would we manage first contact, and could we even communicate with aliens? Franck Marchis, a senior planetary astronomer from the SETI Institute, unpacks the prospect with Andrew Harrison – and the idea aliens might already know we’re here, but we’re too boring for them to care.
“The most important question is intelligent life.”
“This discovery will not be a big surprise f...