In an attempt of maximizing our chances for contacting alien life, SETI is planning to send messages about Earth and humanity to outer space.
The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.
Massive assumption that any alien life out there will be able to read and speak english. Since when has contact ever been made with another civilisation only to be blown away by the fact that the new civilisation already speaks the language?! It has Never happened in the history of existence!
The other massive assumption is that alien life exists in 'this' dimension. You might have to send that wiki file into the next dimension for it to even be registerd on their plane of existence!
That sounds like a very bad idea. Doing so would give them an advantage over us with them knowing almost everything about us and leave us knowing nothing about them. Also I'm not entirely sure how the SETI satellites work but how can they assume they will find intelligent life by listening to space. The only way that would be possible is if that civilization was billions of years old which is very unlikely or if they are very close which would be difficult to tell since we wouldn't know if it's our own signal we are detecting.
I'm sure any super advanced alien race that is aware of our existence is only interested in studying us (for the time being at least). I do not believe in hostile aliens. That notion is just us projecting our own fears onto them. Any species so advanced as to construct intergalactic space travel has most likely outgrown being a hostile race.
Along with the wikipedia, SETI should also send a book explaining to aliens how to read English. That being said, do they even have anything that'd teach some alien English? An alien who is literally an alien to our culture, words, voice and other most basic stuff. Way to go, SETI! Way to go.
So if we ever discover other life out there and they look more or less like us, what does that say about evolution?