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Plans for alien contact found wanting

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Governments lack frameworks to respond to discoveries.

Enormous satellite dishes make up the search party for extraterrestrial life, but in the event of success, should a welcome party follow? Astronomers and biologists involved in the search for life on other planets are worried about a lack of regulatory and ethical policies to guide them.

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Laursen, L. Plans for alien contact found wanting. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.35

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