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May 14th: What If We Do Find Aliens? How Prepared Is Earth For Meeting Extraterrestrials?
We’ve been so busy wondering how we’ll find aliens that we never stopped to consider what we’ll do if we actually encounter them. How does an alien discovery get communicated to the media?
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