Seth Shostak, director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, proposed a plan to beam the entire Internet into space in order to set up a connection with aliens. "We could transmit the contents of the Internet into outer space. Such a large corpus - with its text, pictures, videos and sounds - would allow clever extraterrestrials to decipher much about our society, and even formulate questions that could be answered with the material in hand", said Shostak.

Using a radio transmitter will take months to send the web into outer space. The better idea is to use a powerful laser as it can convey bits much like an optical fiber and launch these data in a matter of few days.

Shostak has tried to explore the controversial issue of whether or not humans should make attempts to make contacts with aliens through his article titled as "Should We Keep a Low Profile in Space?"

Humankind has already made an effort to contact aliens by listening and searching for messages traveling through space.

Director of SETI's interstellar message composition, Douglas A. Vakoch, told Business Insider that it may be a better way to trigger a response by signaling our attention. He said Shostak's plan calls for transmission of the entire internet into space.

Efforts are being made for decades to search aliens with SETI's series of telescopes. Now, Shostak and his colleagues at SETI believe that the time has come to step up and make our presence in the universe known to any species listening out there.