"It's not the Klingons you should be worried about, it's the Borg. We could take the Klingons."
In a bar in San Jose, the beer flows and talk turns to the latest controversy from the SETI Institute, based just down the road in Mountain View. On Friday Doug Vakoch of SETI broached the subject at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science here. He proposed that instead of merely searching and listening for signals from aliens, we should actively direct signals to promising exoplanet locations where they might live. The project is also known as METI - messaging extraterrestrial intelligence.
The idea is to use the world's largest radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, to message stars within 82 light-years of Earth.
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