How Should We Prepare for Aliens to Arrive on Earth?

What will contact with a new intelligent lifeform mean for humanity’s future? Can the close encounters Hollywood has imagined help us plot our way forward? And, is it possible that humanity will find unity in how we present ourselves to the new arrivals?

A panel including astrobiologist, theoretical physicist, and ASU associate professor Sara Imari Walker, and Corey Gray, senior operations specialist at LIGO Hanford Observatory, visit Zócalo – not to discuss whether there is life out there, but to reflect upon how to prepare to meet it. Moderated by Julian E. Barnes, National Security Reporter, New York Times.

Image credit: Illustration by Be Boggs.