Matt Kilty

And I'm like, oh, my.

This is like all I could think about was Doug.

It's Eddie.

So I call him up.

But weirdly, this is what I heard on the other end of the line.

What the heck is Medi?

And it turns out there's like a whole juicy backstory behind that single letter change.

Tell me the origin story of Medi.

So he explained that for a long time, even before he started at SETI.

He had this feeling that pointing our microphones towards the sky, that just wasn't enough.

It's like a high school prom or something, you know?

So Doug's like, come on, someone's got to say something, anything.

It could be as simple as, you know, just like a, yoo-hoo!

Or it could be something more complicated, like something like, hey!

We're a couple billion moderately intelligent carbon-based life forms on this third planet off of this particular yellow dwarf over here.

So nice to meet you.

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Especially if you know anything about runaway global warming.

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