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David Delgado Shorter

First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history

An array of radio telescopes pointing into the night sky with the milky way behind

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

We're only halfway through 2023, and it feels already like the year of alien contact.

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