Science isn’t just a dispassionate search for truth. It also provides lessons for living our daily lives in the face of uncertainty and the need for commitment. Dr Douglas Vakoch is president of METI International, a San Francisco-based scientific organisation that transmits powerful, ...

What if every advanced civilization is listening and not transmitting? Reaching out takes courage, and exploration requires standing up for what we want in our lives (even if it disappoints other people). Maybe we’ll find out that we are that long-lived civilization that we’ve been looking for. ...

Douglas Vakoch is the Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute, as well as the only social scientist employed by a SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) organization. Dr. Vakoch researches ways that different civilizations might create messages that could be ...

For over fifty years, astronomers have pointed their telescopes to the sky, looking for signals from advanced civilizations—a project called SETI, the search for ... source

Dr. Vakoch is President of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI). As astronomers launch ambitious projects for Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, ... source