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A better way to search for extraterrestrial intelligence

phys.org·David Appell·about 1 month ago
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An intelligent extraterrestrial alien relaxes after sending out highly directional signals to his galaxy. Credit: Jim Cooper from Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/ai-generated-alien-planets-sci-fi-8974671/ When you're looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, it helps to know what you're looking for and to go about it in the most efficient way. But work so far has generally not done so, writes Benjamin Zuckerman, an astrophysicist and emeritus professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Zuckerman suggests our searches via the electromagnetic spectrum should be redesigned, making use of astronomical surveys done independently of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), and he offers an improved search technique suggested by his research.…

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