CETI: Foundations, Milestones, and the Cautious Path to Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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ETI communication is the proactive effort to detect and possibly message alien civilizations using universal ideas like mathematics and physics, drawing on milestones such as the Arecibo message by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan and Cocconi and Morrison, while facing vast delays and noise and requiring careful international ethical coordination.

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CETI efforts bifurcate into passive detection—scanning the sky for technosignatures indicative of alien technology—and active transmission, where Earth originates deliberate beacons to nearby star