52' | Science/Technology | HD

ESP 2021

Somadrome

For more than 50 years, we’ve been unsuccessfully searching for any evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. Nevertheless, the discovery of thousands of exoplanets where life could have arisen has been a real game changer and the hope of finding them is much higher than never before.
As a first contact with an alien intelligence might become a reality in a not distant future, it’s urgent to solve a tricky dilemma never faced before for the humankind: how could we communicate with them?
Considering that it’s hardly to imagine what sort of form of life and intelligence they could be like, it’s really difficult to compose a message and many questions arise immediately: What kind of universal language could we use to be understood? What should be the content of the message? How could we introduce ourselves to an unknown civilization? Couldn’t it be risky to send messages to them in case they were hostile? On behalf of whom we should speak in that message?
Nevertheless, if any of those messages could eventually be decoded and answered in any far, far away star, that could radically transformed our consciousness as species and our place in the universe. We would never be the same.