So, it's time to talk about #aliens.

Is the search for #intelligent #life just an impossible search for a microscopic pin within a mountain-sized haystack? Or is there a way to try and be smart about how we search?

A thread about some work I've been involved with that addresses this question... (1/n)

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@eamonn_kerins I’ve seen a UFO, so they exist. But not sure about getting in contact with them - would be like one of the remote Amazon tribes being “contacted” by Western civilisations in the past, where the tribe was in effect killed off (and we are the tribe)
@tmyerscough @eamonn_kerins
I don’t understand why we would encourage aliens to come to planet earth. Stephen Hawking warned against it, if they were intelligent enough to be able to travel here, they would want to be the dominant species.
@lovehonestyrespect @eamonn_kerins and pillage the earth of all its resources and kill most of us - there may be a few intellectuals they would take with them