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What if humanity’s first contact with aliens became our last?

Are we alone in the Universe? With more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe and at least 500 billion planets ...

Aliens may have stopped trying to contact humans because they simply got bored, Nasa scientist claims

Aliens may have stopped trying to contact humans because they simply got bored, Nasa scientist claims - Astrophysicist ...
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The Conversation on MSNOpinion

First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don’t learn from history

When Christopher Columbus first came ashore in the Caribbean in 1492, he made first contact with what was, to him, an unfamiliar world. While his journey took place on ships rather than spacecraft, ...
Ars Technica

What if the aliens come and we just can’t communicate?

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...