The Breakthrough Message competition aims to build a digital portrait of life on soil. Making it could increase respect for the preciousness of life Related: Stephen Hawking launches $100m search for alien life beyond solar system The scientific search for extraterrestrial civilisations has languished for more than a decade,as the hunt for habitable planets and simpler forms of life has thrived. Nasa’s stunningly successful Kepler mission has discovered a thousand new worlds orbiting other stars. Astrobiology is a burgeoning field. But the search for clever life, begun in 1960 by astronomer Frank Drake, and somehow fell off the funding radar.
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Source: theguardian.com