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What if humanity’s first contact with aliens became our last?

Are we alone in the Universe? With more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe and at least 500 billion planets ...
Ars Technica

What if the aliens come and we just can’t communicate?

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...
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Aliens Could Be All Around Us—But We’re Totally Unprepared for ‘First Contact’

It's one of the most popular themes in science fiction—top secret government experts are ready to spring into action if a UFO appears. For example, in the novella-based 2016 film Arrival, the ...
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There’s a Chilling Reason Why We Haven’t Made Contact With Aliens Yet, Scientists Say

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great physicist Enrico Fermi first posed the challenging question over half a century ago, wondering why we appear to be alone ...
Psychology Today

What First Contact With Aliens Might Mean for Our Minds

Source: JWST/NASA Given the immense age of the universe and staggering number of potential habitats, it is possible, if not probable, that the universe is teeming with intelligent lifeforms. First ...
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First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don’t learn from history

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SETI has been listening for markers that may indicate alien life -- but is doing so ethical? Donald Giannati via Unsplash When ...
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35 Years Ago, Star Trek Flipped The Script On Alien First Contact

The episode begins with a cold open, in which aliens called Malcorians have discovered that Riker (Jonathan Frakes) was living among them, surgically disguised as a Malcorian. What makes this episode ...