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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Science
Trisha Kae Andrada

Why Scientists Say Our First Alien Contact Could Be Extremely Loud and Far From Friendly ETs in the Movies

Why 3I/ATLAS Is Being Compared to a Spaceship Engine in New XRISM Images (Credit: Pexels)

New findings indicate that the first interaction between humans and extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) may not align with the peaceful, friendly encounters frequently portrayed in films.

David Kipping, who leads the Cool Worlds Lab at Columbia University, has introduced the Eschatian Hypothesis, a theory suggesting that the initial signals we receive from extraterrestrial civilisations are expected to be extremely loud.

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