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Space Policy Edition: The Geopolitics of a Successful SETI Detection

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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Getting a Technological Advantage Right Away From an Alien Signal

It assumes that to concede the idea that you can get some technological advantage right away from an alien signal would be that their technology is just right above. And so, even if there were some morsel that were super useful militarily, it's something that we're close to working on anyway and the advantage is going to be short lived. It really illuminates, I think, how fallible our brains are in terms of like, presentism, and like, eccentricism,.

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