Spielberg's Disclosure Day promotes alien conspiracy trope, contradicting real SETI protocols
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Emma Gometz
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Summary
The article reviews Steven Spielberg's new film Disclosure Day, which centers on the fictional premise of leaking suppressed news that aliens are real. It contrasts this Hollywood trope with the real-world work of SETI Institute researchers, who have updated their post-detection protocol for handling potential alien contact. The article explains that SETI scientists operate transparently, not through government conspiracies, and details the actual scientific protocols for verifying and announcing any potential extraterrestrial signal discovery.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledDisclosure Day is far from Spielberg's first encounter with the decades-old trope that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has already found aliens right here on Earth—and that a vast government conspiracy is preventing anyone else from finding out.
But researchers at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., say this trope couldn't be further from the truth.
SETI researchers behind the updated postdetection protocol say they aren't in the business of secrets
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