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b'"Dear E.T. \\u2026\\u201d So far, so good. But now what? Writing is never easy, but what if your task was to craft a message to aliens living elsewhere in the universe, and your prose would represent all humankind? Got writer\\u2019s block yet?\\nWhat to say to the aliens was the focus of a recent conference in which participants shifted their attentions away from listening for extraterrestrial signals to transmitting some. In this show, we report on the \\u201cCommunicating Across the Cosmos\\u201d conference held at the SETI Institute in December 2014.\\xa0\\nFind out what scientists think we should say. Also, how archeology could help us craft messages to an unfamiliar culture. Plus, why journalists might be well-suited to writing the message. And, a response to Stephen Hawking\\u2019s warning that attempting to contact aliens is too dangerous.\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nDouglas Vakoch \\u2013 Director of interstellar message composition, SETI Institute\\n\\n\\n Paul Wason \\u2013 Archaeologist, anthropologist and vice president for the life sciences and genetics program at the Templeton Foundation\\n\\n\\nAl Harrison \\u2013 Emeritus professor of psychology, University of California, Davis\\n\\n\\nMorris Jones \\u2013 Journalist and space analyst in Sydney, Australia\\n\\n\\n Shari Wells-Jensen \\u2013 Professor of English, Bowling Green State University\\n\\n\\nFirst released January 12, 2015.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'