search for extraterrestrial intelligence
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How The Cryptocurrency Frenzy Is Interfering With Our Search For Alien Life
According to the BBC, the current graphics card shortage driven by cryptocurrency miners isn’t just hurting gamers, it’s also impeding our efforts to find evidence of a better civilisation out there – one that is free of overzealous cryptocurrency miners.
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Was It A Good Idea To Beam Our Best Techno To An Alien World?
In the year 2030, a powerful radio transmission originating from Earth will arrive at a potentially habitable exoplanet located approximately 12.4 light years away. Should any alien intelligence be there to receive it, they’re in for quite a treat: This binary stream of data contains short musical clips from some of the world’s best electronic…
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Hibernating Aliens Could Explain The Great Silence
We have yet to find any traces of extraterrestrial intelligence, a vexing problem known as the Fermi Paradox. A new solution to the “where are all the aliens?” conundrum suggests that advanced aliens do exist — but they’re in a self-imposed state of hibernation, waiting for a future era of the cosmos in which they…
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What That ‘Strong Signal’ From A Nearby Sunlike Star Really Means
Yesterday, news made the rounds that a team of Russian astronomers had detected an unusually strong signal emanating from a nearby sunlike star — a possible indication of an alien civilisation. Here’s what the detection of this signal really means, and why it’s probably not ET.