Decolonizing SETI: Reframing Language, Governance, and Diversity to Strengthen the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

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Decolonizing SETI means reckoning with colonial history, honoring Indigenous sovereignty, reconsidering where and how SETI infrastructure sits and is governed, listening to marginalized Earth voices, reframing terms like alien and intelligence that carry colonial baggage, and widening diversity of thinkers to blend universal physics with other possible ways of thinking, thereby strengthening the search for life with real-world impact.