g Abodes - The strikingly banded rocks scattered across the upper Midwest and elsewhere throughout the world are actually ambassadors from the past, offering clues to the environment of the early Earth more than 2 billion years ago. See article.
g Message - Is it even ethical for us to contact alien life? See article. Note: This article is a few years old.
g Aftermath - If we ever make contact with intelligent aliens, we should be able to build a universal translator to communicate with them, according to a linguist and anthropologist. See article.
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"Ethics" article poses interesting questions. The pre-sapient scenario reminds me of a story in Stephen Baxter's Vacuum Diagrams in which the main characters explore an object in the Oort cloud and their body heat nearly destroys a civilization then didn’t know was there.
I finally got around to reading the story you recommended, Tony - my "to read" list is very long. The story is an apt metaphor for so much of what humans do, from pumping greenhouse gases into the air to personal relationships: We enver really examine, or maybe even can know, the full consequences of our actions. Thanks for the suggestion!
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