A group of researchers have reportedly claimed that if humans want to hear from aliens then we need to be more instructive about the messages that are sent out to space. Transmitting a detailed signal to space is the only way of getting back one in return from our galactic neighbors, as conveyed by researchers in a recent interview.
President of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI), a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, Douglas Vakoch believes that the current signals being sent into space are far too simplistic and primitive to be interpreted by alien civilizations. Furthermore, he suggests that aliens may be waiting for a clear signal from us that shows our willingness to talk.
To aid the process of communication with extraterrestrials, the team at METI has launched a new campaign that wants to create both informative and provocative messages for alien civilizations. METI has big plans, and the team is looking at sending out the first radio transmission towards the end of 2018. The messages, that are going to be sent, will reveal basic scientific and mathematical concepts which could be interpreted easily by any extraterrestrial civilization that comes across it.
"It's too late to conceal ourselves in the universe, so we should decide how we want to represent ourselves," said Douglas Vakoch. "'It would be ideal to use a powerful transmitter like those used for planetary radar studies, such as Arecibo Observatory". Something similar to this has been attempted in the past, a famous example being the Arecibo radio telescope sending out such a signal into space in 1974.
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