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The best way to search for extraterrestial life I heard is a swarm of drones placed in such a distance from the Sun that it acts as a gravitational lens to grea
by lmilcin 5y ago
The best way to search for extraterrestial life I heard is a swarm of drones placed in such a distance from the Sun that it acts as a gravitational lens to greatly magnify any planet around any star in even quite large distance from our system.
I think realistic resolutions in kilometers per pixel are theoretically possible even with existing technology (assuming we can build the swarm and position it in the right place quite far from the Sun and then maintain communication).
The disadvantage is you need many separate fleets of drones to map more than one target.
- shoto_io 5y agoYes. This video explains it rather nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI
- northwest_nfts 5y agoYeah, that sounds similar to the idea of the Terrascope. I think the positioning of drones for the sun might be so wide to be infeasible for the next century. (Like, the drones would have to be in the Kuiper belt) I haven't watched this YT video recently, but I think he also touches on a Sol-scope and a Jupiter-scope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgOTZe07eHA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgOTZe07eHA
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