Posted on 02/02/2022 7:02:34 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
The truth is out there — or at least that’s what researchers at NASA and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute are hoping.
While much of the SETI Institute’s research involves scanning space for light and radio signals as indicators of extraterrestrial life, it’s also looking for bigger objects — and specifically alien megastructures.
“[It’s] essentially any artificial structure built by an intelligent civilization perhaps for energy harvesting purposes,” Ann Marie Cody, a researcher scientist at NASA Ames and the SETI Institute, told Vice in a fascinating new interview.
The method that Cody and her colleagues employ to try and find these megastructures is actually straightforward — and it’s one scientists have widely used to discover exoplanets and other celestial bodies for decades.
“We look at thousands — even millions — of stars, take image after image, then we translate those images into a sequence of each star’s brightness over time,” Cody explained. Every time an object like a planet passes by that star, it dims and creates a light signature.
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Looking for Larry Niven’s Ringworlds?
I have heard rumors of a type 2 civ called the Dysons
They make great vacuums
/sarc
I say...whatever ET wants, the answer is NO.
Energy harvesting?? Only UN-intelligent civilizations fail to use nuclear sources for energy.
Oh pfffft. If we could find buildings/energy harvesters that were created by intelligent civilizations— they would have already come to earth and squished humans like a bug.
I have wondered how long advanced civilizations keep durable records for.
And if they did, would we recognize it.
I doubt it very much.
In 20 years almost all knowledge will be in the clouds
If civ is decimated for 1000 years what would future archeologists think? how about if it were 5000 years?
Data retention is hard
Every one knows that all the aliens were “greenies!”
It seems odd that an “advanced” civilization would make a Gobekli Tepi and only draw pictures of animals on slabs of rock. Maybe it was done some time post-disaster when the “advanced” aspect had already been wiped out, and they buried it in case whatever it was happened again.
There’s a book named The Story of Adam and Eve in the CIA reading library, which claims the Earth’s axis of rotation shifted (I would speculate it was only temporarily if it happened) due to ice buildup at the poles thousands of years ago and that caused the oceans to wash over the continents. Supposedly only a few illiterate clans at high altitudes survived, therefore it was basically a hard reset for civilization.
And supposedly that wasn’t the first time.
The Altantis tale may plug into this as well.
Strangely enough, that is why I’m working on a 5,000 year project.
“Only UN-intelligent civilizations fail to use nuclear sources for energy.”
The max possible power output of all the fissile elements on Earth is pinprick compared to to energy the Sun puts out in a day. For any advanced civilization nuclear fission would have long been replaced.
Excellent! Thanks!
SETI has been a fraud and a waste of resources from day one.
There are millions of humans on this planet claiming they are talking to ETs of various kinds, while the “scientists” call them kooks and cranks—meanwhile searching the outer reaches of the galaxy looking for ETs.
They are like ants looking for humans on other planets and being unable to find any....
They are like ants looking for humans at a picnic and being unable to find any....
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