The Order of the Dolphin and the Secret Origin of SETI

Source: Neatorama

In 1961, ten scientists – including Frank Drake, Melvin Calvin and Carl Sagan – met in a secret meeting at a rural observatory in West Virginia to discuss how they would find, and talk to, aliens. This meeting later set the foundation for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence or SETI.

But what most people don’t know is that during the meeting, a neuroscientists named John C.

Lilly enthralled the scientists with his attempts to communicate with dolphins, and how that could help us communicate with aliens. The scientists were so excited with Lilly’s research that they called themselves the Order of the Dolphin:

Drake would write that, “Much of that first day, he regaled us with tales of his bottlenosed dolphins, whose brains, he…

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