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In 1924, Earth saw its closest Mars opposition in over a century, and some thought our Martian neighbors might use the event to attempt contact. So for one night, US Naval and Army stations scanned the skies for extraterrestrial transmissions. More »
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It’s all well and good to go looking for extraterrestrials, but what are we going to say once we find them? A workshop at the University of Wyoming, “Writing for an Extraterrestrial Audience,” asks students how they would explain the human condition to interstellar visitors. More on the pedagogy of cross-species communications after the jump. More »
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