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Hi, I'm Dan and I'm the editor of the Week Junior Science and Nature.

We've been looking back at some of the cold cases in our files of mysteries of science, our X-Files, you might say. And yes, they may be out

there. So today we're asking how to talk to aliens. Hello, can you hear me? It's Dan here,

the editor of Science and Nature, the finest magazine ever made on Earth.

Calling all intelligent life out there in the universe, all aliens and extraterrestrials.

Can you hear me?

Dan, it's Kieran, the features editor of the finest magazine ever made on Earth.

What's going on?

Oh, hello.

I'm just trying to make contact with distant civilizations in the stars.

Right. Any luck so far?

No, not yet.

Okay. Well, um, seeing as we're here, shall we make a podcast?

Maybe we could do it about talking to aliens and see if we can help you out a bit.

Ah, that sounds like a very good plan, Kieran.

Okay, well, let's do that then, because we are returning to a topic that we looked at very early on in the first season of Mysteries of Science, which was extraterrestrial life.

I remember you being equally desperate to find aliens in that episode as well.

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