Astronomers find no signs of alien tech after scanning over 10 million stars

CNET ^ | Sept. 7, 2020 8:36 p.m. PT | Jackson Ryan

[Jonty30]

It is unlikely that they would fund evidence, even if there is life on other planets. As we have advanced, we’ve been going dark. We don’t shine our city lights in space as much as we used to and we are less dependent on radio waves as we have moved to moving all data through a closed internet system. Any advanced life will probably have gone dark even more than we have.

[DannyTN]

That’s because they all have shrinking technology which saves a lot of energy.

[SkyDancer]

Aliens on stars? Kinda hot I should think.

[Leaning Right]

> a collection of 4096 antennas planted in the red soil of Western Australia that detects radio signals from space <

Why go to all that expense and trouble? If you’re searching for evidence of aliens, just ask Hillary Clinton.

[Jonty30]

Does that mean they are not guilty?

[cgbg]

My favorite quote on this subject (for those who may not be familiar with it):

To search expectantly for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture-bound a presumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant.

Terence McKenna

[The Duke]

Or they may be communicating via quantum entanglement. Or maybe we were listening on AM and they were transmitting on FM(?)

[Bobalu]

It is probable that emitting electromagnetic waves as a method of communication will be a short-lived phenomenon as an advanced society creates some other, better method...possible something quantum in nature?

So all the civilizations scattered throughout the universe would emit such radiation in short one-time bursts.

We are probably not listening properly.

[MtnClimber]

I see they are now calling it alien “technosignatures” because if they call it “intelligence” it could insult all the stupid aliens.

[Bobalu]

In some ethereal realm McKenna is still stoned.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"assuming that the civilisation have technology similar to our own"

Our own technology is a brief snapshot of only a few decades compared to thousands of years of human civilization. Would civilizations thousands or millions of years ahead of us still be using radio waves for communication?

[PAR35]

I wouldn’t expect the ‘scientists’ to say anything else.

[Celerity]

“I do not believe this data because I do not want to”

There are also no such things as ghosts.

[PAR35]

just ask Hillary Clinton.

Like any of us would trust anything a lizard alien would say.

[thescourged1]

10 million out of what...200 billion observable stars?

Sure, I'm convinced. Somebody has a low bar to jump or has a high opinion of themselves.

[MortMan]

So, because they cannot find evidence that alien civilizations are using archaic Earth technology as the underpinnings of their advanced technologies, they assume they have not found evidence of advanced technologies.

How quaint!

[cgbg]

Interesting book on three of the most creative people of our time:

https://www.amazon.com/High-Weirdness-Esoterica-Visionary-Experience/dp/1907222766

[cgbg]

The “scientists” have put a lead chain of dogma around our necks—they are definitely part of the problem and not part of the solution.

[sten]

maybe they know something we don’t....

like not making yourself a target for the big bad galactic evil dudes