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While I don't think it's necessarily time to give up on classical SETI, it seems very unlikely we find contemporaneous civilizations interested in beaming radio
by TheBlight 3y ago
While I don't think it's necessarily time to give up on classical SETI, it seems very unlikely we find contemporaneous civilizations interested in beaming radio back and forth. This idea seems more interesting to me: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.08543.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.08543.pdf
Along with combing the surface of the moon looking for existing impacts of potentially artificial objects.
- godelski 3y agoI think the best way to look at it is that placing a structure on the moon is something that will be initially costly, but cause visitation. When then has the potential to bring down the cost as the process "scales" (transit) and then, slowly, Rome gets built. Not that I don't love SETI, but sometimes there's a bigger picture because of a larger interconnection. If there were a few simple moon projects, it could easily build momentum for more space missions in general. Just like a lot of satellites did, but going to the moon is a different ball game than orbit (even GEO).