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📢  文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读讲义 It’s the Perfect Moment to Search for Intelligent Alien Life     Humans Are Divided and Unhappy. What Better Time to Contact Alien Life? The New York Times Alien Life Nov 15, 2024 | 895 words | ★★★★☆ On Nov. 16, 1974, scientists fired off a nearly three-minute radio message into space with the express intention of communicating with intelligent extraterrestrial life. Broadcast from what was then the world’s largest radio telescope, in Arecibo, P.R., the message was delivered in the direction of M13, a globular cluster of stars about 25,000 light-years away. The M13 cluster was chosen in part because it includes hundreds of thousands of stars. Scientists hoped at least one may be orbited by a planet bearing intelligent life of some sort. The Arecibo message was a glorious demonstration of our species reaching outward into the universe for a connection to whoever was listening. That’s precisely what the missive ………………………………