Royal Society Conference on Extraterrestrial Life
The Royal Society is holding a meeting on 4th and 5th October, entitled Towards a Scientific and Societal Agenda on Extraterrestrial Life. This is a follow-up to a meeting held in January and will discuss issues such as whether we should reply to any message received from extraterrestrials, who should send such a message and what it should say.
The meeting is already attracting considerable media attention, in relation to the issue of who speaks for Planet Earth. This led to reports that a Malaysian astrophysicist, Dr Mazlan Othman had been appointed as an "alien ambassador". The story stemmed from the view that the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (which she heads) should play a co-ordinating role in composing any message to an extraterrestrial civilisation. I set the record straight on this story in a recent CNN interview (see right).
I shall be attending this meeting, as I attended the previous one, and discussing the issues with some of those attending.
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The Royal Society is holding a meeting on 4th and 5th October, entitled Towards a Scientific and Societal Agenda on Extraterrestrial Life. This is a follow-up to a meeting held in January and will discuss issues such as whether we should reply to any message received from extraterrestrials, who should send such a message and what it should say.
The meeting is already attracting considerable media attention, in relation to the issue of who speaks for Planet Earth. This led to reports that a Malaysian astrophysicist, Dr Mazlan Othman had been appointed as an "alien ambassador". The story stemmed from the view that the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (which she heads) should play a co-ordinating role in composing any message to an extraterrestrial civilisation. I set the record straight on this story in a recent CNN interview (see right).
I shall be attending this meeting, as I attended the previous one, and discussing the issues with some of those attending.
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