If scientists ever succeed in making contact with extraterrestrial beings, who gets to steer the conversation? Indeed, how do we even have a conversation? Despite what Gene Roddenberry told you, any ...

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Kicking things off, we’ve chosen a baseline for these opening encounters. Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind represents how most people hope a real-life alien encounter will go down ...