I was surprised by the amount of efforts there is to send out/receive a messages to and from extraterrestrial life. I was very surprised there have actually been multiple cases of signals that had potential to be non-natural. Another concept that is interesting to me is how science fiction portrays alien life. In reality it is impossible to image what extraterrestrial life would look like, how they would communicate etc. Another interesting discovery is the discovery of extrasolar planets and the incredible quantity of them. It was tragic to hear that funding for this project is no longer federally funded but then assured to know that there is strong private funding. Although it is great that there is still funding I believe it is best done in the hands of the government as it is still such an undiscovered frontier.
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