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Sci Tech    H4'ed 12/30/16

This researcher wants to initiate contact with Proxima Centauri b

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The exoplanet next door could soon get an out-of-this-world radio broadcast.

“To be intelligible, any message to extraterrestrials needs to be written in a universal language, and that won’t be English or Swahili,” Vakoch says. “We begin with mathematics, because it seems likely that scientists on any world will need to know at least the essentials of math.”

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