How to talk to aliens

Unexplainable

Scientists have been searching for aliens for decades. But if we ever do get a signal someday, how will we communicate back? And will anyone out there be able to understand us?


Guests: Doug Vakoch, president of METI, and Sheri Wells-Jensen, linguist at Bowling Green State University


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Scientists have been searching for aliens for decades. But if we ever do get a signal someday, how will we communicate back? And will anyone out there be able to understand us?


Guests: Doug Vakoch, president of METI, and Sheri Wells-Jensen, linguist at Bowling Green State University


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2025-03-26 24 min
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