The UK entrants to a Breakthrough Initiative competition agree on one thing: any missive to extraterrestrials must be an up-to-date portrayal of humankindMessages sent into space to tell extraterrestrials approximately the nature of humankind should be updated to reflect gender equality and the diversity of life on soil,scientists say.
At a conference in Leeds this week, a group of British astronomers and philosophers who form the UK research network for SETI - the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - agreed to enter a competition organised by the Breakthrough Initiative to devise a message to send out to space on behalf of the world to whoever might be listening.[br]Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com