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That may have been potentially a bad idea.

If we’re ever going to have confirmation of Alien-life, today could be the day, scientists have said. It all began when Japanese astronomers Masaki Morimoto and Hisashi Hirabayashi used a Stanford University telescope 40 years ago to put out a radio signal towards a star called Altair, which was 16.7 light years away.