In Part 1 of this series we looked at what protocol humanity has in place for first contact with extraterrestrial intelligent life. In Part 2 we'll explore the different possible types of alien civilizations and how they could relate to humanity!

Music by Ross Bugden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhqnK65AZmM

Sources Cited and Further Reading:

http://www.attalus.org/info/curtius.html https://www.jstor.org/stable/1086829?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents http://www.webcitation.org/6DA62RTMm http://www.astrosociology.com/Library/PDF/Contributions/SETIandConsequences_ENG.pdf http://www.webcitation.org/6DA6J12kR http://www.webcitation.org/6DA6MEvc2

Much of the research for this video was compiled by one of my very helpful volunteers, Isaac Best!

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