Contact: What happens if a Signal is Found

[SirUlli]

...In the next two dozen years, the Allen Telescope Array will parse the nearest thousand light-years of space. If there are other occupants of this galactic neighborhood, we could turn up a signal.

But then what? Would the discovery be put under wraps, either voluntarily or by government edict? If we found a signal, would you know?...

Full Story can be found here

http://www.seti.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ktJ2J9MMIsE&b=194993&ct=2882789

Greetings from Germany
Sir Ulli

 

[amdxborg]

Thanx SirUlli!

 

[RaySun2Be]

The way our current govt. has problems keeping secrets under wraps, I'd say even if there was a govt. edict to hush it, it wouldn't stay that way. Not something as significant as that.

So I think we would end up knowing either way. Good, bad, and ugly....

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for a very interesting read, SirUlli!