SETI-SETR

If we detect a signal from an extra-terrestrial civilization, it will come from a society far older than ours. What will they know? And what will they believe?

SETI is the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. SETR is its companion question: the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Religion. This site, written by Rex Pay (author of the Humanistic Texts anthology), asks what happens to belief systems when a civilization grows very old, and how first contact might change ours.

Start with the author's own introduction, or check the exoplanet score tracking discoveries relevant to the calculation.