Formation | 2015 |
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Headquarters | San Francisco |
Founder | Douglas Vakoch |
Website |
meti |
METI International, known simply as METI, is a non-profit research organization founded in July 2015 by Douglas Vakoch [1] that creates and transmits interstellar messages to attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] It is based in San Francisco, California. [7] [5]
METI targets nearby stars and researches the nature of the messages to send. [1] [8] On October 16, 17, and 18, 2017, it sent a message consisting of a scientific and mathematical tutorial to the red dwarf Luyten's Star, just over 12 light years from Earth. [9] [10] [11] The message was sent from a radio transmitter at the EISCAT research facility in Tromsø, Norway. [12]
METI's aim is to build an interdisciplinary community to design interstellar messages, within the context of the evolution of intelligence and language. [13] In May 2016, it convened the meeting “The Intelligence Of SETI: Cognition And Communication In Extraterrestrial Intelligence” in Puerto Rico. [2] [4] In May 2018 in Los Angeles, it held “Language in the Cosmos” in conjunction with the International Space Development Conference. [13] [14] to examine the connection between astrobiology and linguistics. [8] On March 22, 2017, it held a workshop in Paris examining the question "What is life?" from an extraterrestrial perspective. [15]
METI also conducts an optical search of extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). [16] [2] Its optical observatory in Panama looks for laser pulses from advanced civilizations. It has examined anomalous stars like the nearby red dwarf star Ross 128, [17] as well as HD 164595, 94 light years from Earth. [16] None of the searches has yielded evidence of artificial signals. [16] [17]
American scientist and science-fiction author David Brin has questioned "whether small groups of zealots should bypass all institutions, peer critique, risk appraisal or public opinion, to shout ‘yoohoo’ into a potentially hazardous cosmos" and so force a fait accompli on humanity. [18]
Numerous other authors and scientists have expressed similar concerns, generally known as the Dark forest hypothesis of ETI, including Stephen Hawking. [19] [20] Of particular interest in science fiction is Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past, exploring the theory and some of its implications. [21] [22]
Notable members of METI's Board of Directors and Advisory Council include:
Formation | 2015 |
---|---|
Headquarters | San Francisco |
Founder | Douglas Vakoch |
Website |
meti |
METI International, known simply as METI, is a non-profit research organization founded in July 2015 by Douglas Vakoch [1] that creates and transmits interstellar messages to attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] It is based in San Francisco, California. [7] [5]
METI targets nearby stars and researches the nature of the messages to send. [1] [8] On October 16, 17, and 18, 2017, it sent a message consisting of a scientific and mathematical tutorial to the red dwarf Luyten's Star, just over 12 light years from Earth. [9] [10] [11] The message was sent from a radio transmitter at the EISCAT research facility in Tromsø, Norway. [12]
METI's aim is to build an interdisciplinary community to design interstellar messages, within the context of the evolution of intelligence and language. [13] In May 2016, it convened the meeting “The Intelligence Of SETI: Cognition And Communication In Extraterrestrial Intelligence” in Puerto Rico. [2] [4] In May 2018 in Los Angeles, it held “Language in the Cosmos” in conjunction with the International Space Development Conference. [13] [14] to examine the connection between astrobiology and linguistics. [8] On March 22, 2017, it held a workshop in Paris examining the question "What is life?" from an extraterrestrial perspective. [15]
METI also conducts an optical search of extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). [16] [2] Its optical observatory in Panama looks for laser pulses from advanced civilizations. It has examined anomalous stars like the nearby red dwarf star Ross 128, [17] as well as HD 164595, 94 light years from Earth. [16] None of the searches has yielded evidence of artificial signals. [16] [17]
American scientist and science-fiction author David Brin has questioned "whether small groups of zealots should bypass all institutions, peer critique, risk appraisal or public opinion, to shout ‘yoohoo’ into a potentially hazardous cosmos" and so force a fait accompli on humanity. [18]
Numerous other authors and scientists have expressed similar concerns, generally known as the Dark forest hypothesis of ETI, including Stephen Hawking. [19] [20] Of particular interest in science fiction is Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past, exploring the theory and some of its implications. [21] [22]
Notable members of METI's Board of Directors and Advisory Council include: