A few weeks ago, I had a crisis. I was not sure what I wanted to study anymore. For years I was sure that Physics and Maths was where I wanted to be, and it took until I felt completely unsure of what I was doing that I finally sat down and thought about what …
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Following on from my previous post, I want to talk about a more modern form of Active SETI. The Breakthrough Initiatives, launched by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and British Physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, are a series of projects designed to search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, and to determine humanity’s response to the discovery of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. …
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In this post, I want to discuss the Arecibo Message and its implications. First, a bit of background. The Arecibo Message is a binary radio message – written by Dr Frank Drake, Carl Sagan, et al – transmitted by the Arecibo radio telescope on the 16th of November 1974 in the direction of a globular …
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