I think the only real way to do that is as part of a civilization that is expanding into the solar system and has a group understanding to look for artifacts fi

I think the only real way to do that is as part of a civilization that is expanding into the solar system and has a group understanding to look for artifacts first and not destroy them or life. (Kind of a big ask, admittedly.) Space just is huge, even in our solar backyard. There needs to be an economic reason for infrastructure out there for a hope of a dent in the size of the area to be cover-able. Maybe it’d be first sending probes to a region to canvass the area competently before any industrial activity. Hopefully those probes would be from a non-corruptible independent agency. I’m increasingly interested in what that base minimally viable industry would look like. Otherwise, pointing telescopes of increasing complexity to large swaths of the sky is our best hope of all sorts of research. The universe just dwarfs the scale and variation we could ever dream of in a lab setting.