{"id":138028,"date":"2022-04-12T14:23:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T19:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/messaging-aliens-living-long-enough-to-get-a-response-douglas-vakoch-meti"},"modified":"2022-04-12T14:23:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T19:23:17","slug":"messaging-aliens-living-long-enough-to-get-a-response-douglas-vakoch-meti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/messaging-aliens-living-long-enough-to-get-a-response-douglas-vakoch-meti","title":{"rendered":"Messaging Aliens &amp; Living Long Enough to Get A Response \u2014 Douglas Vakoch &amp; METI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6t8crootK-0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Musing on living long enough to know.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Do aliens really exist? \u201cIt is virtually inconceivable to me that there isn\u2019t intelligence somewhere in the universe,\u201d says psychologist and astrobiologist Dr. Douglas Vakoch. \u201cIt\u2019s just numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What happens if aliens send us a message? Learn more in this video from Life Noggin \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/P7afrpjnNCk\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/P7afrpjnNCk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Vakoch has spent his career carefully composing and transmitting messages to nearby stars in hopes of finally making contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. As the president of METI International, an organization dedicated to messaging extraterrestrial intelligence, part of his job is to seek out the corners of the universe that could be home to planets that are within the \u201cGoldilocks zone\u201d: not too hot, not too cold, but just right to support life.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, astronomers announced that three planets in the planetary system of the star TRAPPIST-1 fit the bill. Now, Dr. Vakoch and his team of scientists are using the Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station to send a transmission to the area. The only problem? By the time a signal sent from TRAPPIST-1 could reach Earth, Dr. Vakoch will be long gone. In order to experience this for himself, he would have to live to 140 years old.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/messaging-aliens-living-long-enough-to-get-a-response-douglas-vakoch-meti\">Continue reading \u201cMessaging Aliens &amp; Living Long Enough to Get A Response \u2014 Douglas Vakoch &amp; METI\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musing on living long enough to know. Do aliens really exist? \u201cIt is virtually inconceivable to me that there isn\u2019t intelligence somewhere in the universe,\u201d says psychologist and astrobiologist Dr. Douglas Vakoch. \u201cIt\u2019s just numbers.\u201d What happens if aliens send us a message? Learn more in this video from Life Noggin \u2014 https:\/\/youtu.be\/P7afrpjnNCk. Dr. Vakoch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}