From the New York Times. I'm Michael Barbara. This is the day today: the events of June Sub Twenty Sixty Donald Trump Junior, send an email and Donald Trump gives a speech. And a group of international scientists are devising a plan to send messages into space, to see if we're alone. But what? If we're? Not it's Friday, joy, forty Peter bigger what did die while Trump Junior due in the late afternoon of June seventh point sixteen, what's it after six o clock in the evening, in fact, he hit the fan button email confirming what we now of course consider pre famous meeting with Russia lawyer who was supposed to be bringing him incriminating information about how reclaimed

Peter, can you read us the relevant line from Don juniors email exchange right well, run goldstone. The intermediary setting up his meeting toll Don Junior that the russian government lower would provide quote some official documents and information that would incriminate Hilary an her dealings with Russia. I would be very useful to your father. He goes on to say this is quite obviously very high level and sensitive. Formation, but as part of Russia and its government support for MR drop in several hours later same day, the evening of June. Seventh, what happened with Don Juniors Father

Thank you very much for the hour later, who take the stage as well, Mr Club in New York, to claim victory in the final republican presidential primer internet gonna give him the nominated these already thinking ahead to general action and in its speed, Donald Trump Senior said. I am going to give a major speech on probably Monday of next week and whether it be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the twins, I think you're gonna find it very informative and very very clearly that there are the state department in her private hedge fund, the Russians, the Saudis, the Chinese. All gay

money, two billion Hilary and got favourable treatment in return? It's so Peter Donald Trump Junior is on this day confirming a meeting in which he's been promised official documents that would incriminate Hilary and her dealings with Russia and quote be very useful. To your father and just hours later, his father? Donald Trump promises the porters He will soon reveal Hilary Clinton's corrupt, dealing, is with foreign governments, including quote the Russians. Do I have that right? That's exactly right, and obviously this is an extraordinary coincidence. If it's that Donald Trump Jr said he never told his father about this meeting and president said this week, that he didn't know about it until a few days ago,

The timing obviously does when the cell, to a lot of questions, it seems very extraordinary to happen that quickly now look politics is full of coincidence. Look like conspiracy. We should make any assumptions, but clearly this will be a day that investors will work out a little bit more we in the future right with with the idea in mind that potentially Donald Trump, near. The son who works in the same building is his father and is in it,

formal visor on the campaign potentially could have informed his father of this upcoming meeting and its promise of information about Russia until her son. Well, that's what people would suspect actually write. The sequence of events certainly lends itself to that interpretation. Of course, of two people involved. Both they know that not too, that didn't happen with the president's aid say is look what he was talking about. That night was something we have planned for quite a while. He we always knew we were going to pivoted their general action. That night, that's the last mile atomic and primaries. Am we had this information from this book that come out? I wish your router call Quentin cash by a conservative author who had talked about various things. She had done a factory state that seemed to raise questions about propriety, including actions. We Russia, particularly the approval by the State Department of the open, permitted, a canadian company to

you're uranium in the former soviet regions, so there is another explanation there, but again it up. The timing does lend itself to questions so to that point to knowledge Peter head. President Trump said anything like that before that he said the knight of June seventh in New York to these supporters, suggesting that Hillary Clinton had corrupt dealings with Russia, or was this brindle whether you mentioned it in the pact? Is the beginning of a new state in his pay? Where he's really focusing of fire on Hillary Clinton is the theme is going to return to again and again in the weeks and months to come, he openly done even deliver the speech on the following Monday. I am ass. They say because getting up coming a day after that terrible shooting in Orlando that killed. So many people on it felt it appropriate, come back to it, though a week or so later, Hillary Clinton State Department approved a transfer of twenty percent of America's uranium holdings to Russian. So we have this

third key figure here. What is Hillary Clinton doing around this time? Right, that's interesting thing to write. She had also begun attacking Donald Trump for being too closely water report any sad if he were grating Vladimir Putin as a leader, he give a man a now. I will leave it to the psychiatrist playing his affection for tyrants vary, but for all that fact, the day before Goldstone TAT his very first email, he gave a speech. He says that if you don't know exactly who you're dealing with men like Putin will eat your lunch, so you can see the continuation of all these events and the same time period looks a little different today. Now that we see me female, he Peter. Thank you very much. Hey that's good, talking to you always,

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for decades scientists have been scanning the skies for any evidence of intelligent life beyond earth. There has been a long tradition of listening to the cosmos effectively for signs of intelligent life, structured radio waves. It might be some kind of signal that we could pick up, but this is what they call centres passive in a sense at all. You're doing is listening to signals that are out there. You not sending any Stephen Johnson is reporting on a new group of scientists who call themselves many messaging extraterrestrial intelligence. They want to take a more active and actually initiate conversation. So Stephen, me about the scientists at this organization, many so

in the middle of writing a book about long term. Decision making an we talk in San Francisco in January, the long now foundation and afterwards Alexander rose. You run slung now came up and said: listen you're, interested in long term decisions. Helping to advise this organization called Mehdi. That is working on this plan to send active message. Is targeted at planets that might support life and, if you think about it, when the timescales involved in the kind of transmission time targeting a planet there might be a thousand light years away or twenty five thousand light years away. You could do I to send a message and not get a reply: fervor fifty thousand years, but have he's like that is about as long term a decision as you could possibly imagine knowing you know it's hard to think up another choice, it you could make you know into them,

In seventeen, where the results of that choice wouldn't come back to you for fifty thousand here since that just hard to do that, and so he introduced me to this guy Doug Bacco Shoes whose did this organization, Mehdi and the more I dug into it? The more fascinated I got pay is dug. Yes, it is look it's Michael borrow from the Times Harry you very well. How are you I'm good? I'm good and your name is pronounced. Va coach, vow, coach, voxforge, perfect, so Doug many has a plan here. What is that plan? Will our plan is by the end of twenty Eighteen to begin transmitting, powerful, intentional signals to nearby stars in the hope of getting Spots, and so this is an outgrowth of a search that has been going on for over half a century, a searched make contact with intelligence on other world, but till now the focus has been almost exclusive.

Leon listening for signals. Nineteen sixty one Frank, Drake and agree of astronomers physicists and biologists formed a price Refunded Organization called Seti, the search for extra time. Cereal intelligence. Their goal was to is massive radio telescopes towards space and listen but what happens if other civilizations are doing exactly what we're doing, which is please listening and not transmitting, and so this is a reflection of the maturation of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence by adding component, which reverses the direction and has humankind taking the initiative. Basically, a greetings say: hey were here. Would you like to engage in some intergalactic conversation deadlock which we ve been evil? to do this very thing, you're describing which has sent a message and a space for for decades.

Why now will? Because we have a knowledge that we didn't have when the search began, which is that there are planets everywhere in the discovery of another possible. Ernie Leinen planet actually is seven worse ice planetary over five hundred new planets, they're, all or a thousand and thirty are confirmed, planets, they're called candidates. If the women, the first Eddie Search, happened in nineteen sixty, we knew of no stars that have it's random. Now we look up the night sky and we all of those stars richly every star- has planets around it. And maybe one in five of those planetary system has a planet at just the right distance from its star. That it could support liquid water, the Goldilocks zone, too hot not to call just right, and so we now know of particular stars that we could target that we know too have planet and they are

our own galactic backyard, The challenge, of course, is it you're trying to figure out a way to communicate with another form of intelligence that has evolved in a completely different solar system. How do you tunicate, with a radically different form of intelligence and what? What kind of the base level things, you can assume that they will have in common with us that you can use to kind of create some common reference. So What message is many looking to send what it wanted trying to say beyond, what I imagine my first drafted it would be witches hello. I come at what we're trying to think of the the smallest possible message we could send. That would suggest that

were interesting and there were worth kind of listening to heating there ve been too broad approaches to creating the message in one is exam, if I'd buy that or Sibo message that was sent by the astronomer, Frank Drake, something in nineteen. Seventy four from the Arecibo telescope about telescope and importer ego urges at the time the largest telescope and world and Drake out this idea of sending just a series of pulses basically to tones when you translate them into audio, which attempted to be encyclopaedic. Even though is a brief message tried the sample everything so talk a little bit about. Numbering system about chemistry. What our dna is lie, what we look like solar system and technology we use and the problem of trying to send a message that covers everything is that it may just be a jumble and it's hard to understand anything. Our strategy is just the opposite. Instead of this fixation on.

Dumping a lot of data and trying to cover everything cover. Just a few things very well and so, we are starting with the most basic principles of arithmetic, and then using those to point to the signal itself. So You know that's how we learned language here on earth. We point two things when we sending radio waves were really limited to what we can point to some were point but the nature of the radioactive itself that has a certain frequency that pulses have a certain duration. We introduced the concept of time and then what we can do that we can talk about how we use radio signals to communicate at great distances and how we use other sorts of waves to communicate with one another say through voice? So rather communicating something essential about human beings year. Communicating something about the very technology were using to communicate that right, because yeah. I wish we could just send them something in English. French worthwhile We but they're, not gonna, understand so

questions. What do we do? They have in common and we have in common the technology to communicate. Potentially they get our signal. We know that They can create a radio receiver. So what are you to now to build a radio receiver seems like matter where you are you ve gotta, be a good engineer and if you dont know two plus you with calls for you're, not gonna, be in a very good position to create something as advanced as a radio receiver. Now it seems there is a very real fear here expressed I prominent engineers and promised scientists like Elon Musk, neither Thyssen. Stephen hawking Stephen king says, if aliens visited us here on earth, quote the outcome would be much as one Columbus landed in America, which Durden turn out well for the native Americans, end of quote make a note. He indicates we should stay away from them at all costs. Yes, there is a very active and and quite

debate about this. So the argument is, we are very young in terms of our mastery of radio technology right, we ve been Tinker with radio technology for about a hundred years, ass, a species, and if we do make contact with another species, they will be significantly more advanced and we will have been in and they eventually might have been tinkering with these kinds of technologies for millions of years, that in that you're talking about initiating contact with a much more advanced civilization and the concern that many people have Is that every time in history of earth that one in civilization is made contact with the less advanced civilization in terms of the technology. It has been very bad news, aforethought, less advanced civilization, Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make incredible, as it may seem, both the observations of and the evidence of our eyes led to the inescapable assumption that those strange beings who landed in the Jersey Farmland tonight,

at the Vanguard of invading Army from the planet Mars? That is an incredibly impact for vision, because cognitive cycle just tell us that when we are trying to interpret the risks of in an unknown situation, We rely heavily on the vivid images that come to foreign, what could be more vivid than that, but what you need to do is look at. Whether that is a reasonable assumption and the key issue that hawking ignores is that The civilizations he's worried about the ones that can travel between the stars. They could already know that were here, so any civilization with the ability to traverse the distances between the stars can already.

Up, I will remain, but this could be a risk. It sounds like you're acknowledging that it might not be, but that it could be that a community that receives this message, might Allah Stephen hawking respond aggressively in a way that could affect all of humanity. And yet you all at many, are making a choice to take that risk? So how do you grapple with that and your rapporteur. The fact that you are making decision in some ways. On behalf of all of the rest of us, I think it is easy

for us to believe that an action has a greater risk than not taking an action, but we know that's not always the case. For example, there are people who will decide not to take the action of having a vaccine, and yet that exposes themselves to disease that they could otherwise prevent, and if everyone did it, it could have devastating effects for broader public health it. So the key is. We are all making choices either to try to make contact or not to make contact, and we have no basis for saying that making the initiative making contact is riskier van receiving a message, because we could well have offsetting benefits that we would otherwise forego. So by making contact we may learn what it is that, civilizations dead to make it through their technological adolescence it it does.

Too many get down to this question, which is which is not as many units a whole host of other questions are wrestling with now, with our amazing technological progress. Have we made of whether its things like building super intelligent computers or trying to cure death, or all these other? You know and bishops goals that you sometimes hear from prickly from Silicon Valley. These herb decisions that in o affect us all the fact is that the whole planet, the promise, if you dont, build those systems? If you dont build decision taken wrestle with these kinds of issues, then it just means that The gamblers and up always making the choice for us to people who are willing to take the rest will then take the risk and wall be kind of stock in in the car. Quences with their actions and finally Doug. Let's say that you're wrong ended, it doesnt work, and the messages sent. But it comes ends up.

The ether? What, then, if We are listening. Hundreds thousands of years from now for a reply to our messages and year after year after year. All we hear is this deafening silence. I think it will tell us that humanity is incredibly rare least insofar as a civilization who is willing to try. Make contact with other intelligence in the universe and that in itself is inherently valuable and thanks you very much. I appreciate your time dog. Good luck. I may have a lawless thanks very much

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