"Am 16. November 1974 sandte der SETI-Pionier Frank Drake (SETI=Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) mit der 305-Meter-Schüssel des Arecibo-Radioteleskops (Puerto Rico) knapp drei Minuten lang eine starke Radiobotschaft in Gestalt eines Piktogramms ins All, das selbst irdische Wissenschaftler nur unter großen Mühen entziffern können. Ob die für räumlich und zeitlich ferne Zivilisationen angedachte außerirdische Flaschenpost jemals ihr Zielgebiet erreicht, ist mehr denn fraglich"
"Forty years ago we wrote the script of the internet. Thirty years ago we turned it on. We thought we were building a system to connect computers together. But we quickly learned that it's a system for connecting people.
"What's important about what these people are doing: They're beginning to learn how to communicate with species that are not us, but share a sensory environment. [They're figuring out] what it means to communicate with something that's not a person. I can't wait to see these experiments unfold.
"These interactions with other animals will teach us, ultimately, how we might interact with an alien from another world. I can hardly wait."