Famed physicist Stephen Hawking and others launched a $100 million program called Breakthrough Listen in their search for alien life beyond Earth. The search will begin with the one million stars closest to us in the Milky Way Galaxy and then expand into neighboring galaxies.
“We believe that life arose spontaneously on Earth, so in an infinite universe, there must be other occurrences of life,” Hawking said.
They have a lot of listening ahead of them. That’s a lot of area to cover!
Would you like to win a cool million?
Breakthrough Message, which Hawking was also involved in, is having a contest. All you have to do is come up with significant messages to send to the extraterrestrials that might be listening.
Now it’s your turn: Choose from one of the following three options.
1. Do you believe there are extraterrestrials? Write your opinion.
2. Write a message from Earth to intelligent alien life forms.
3. Write a short story about finding alien life. Will they see us, as Hawking thinks, as “no more valuable than we see bacteria”? (His comment reminds me of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds!)
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