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Two orbital things we might look for: 1. Activity in geostationary orbits. 2. Orbits where the planet's year is exactly divisible by its day, eliminating leap
by tim_hutton 3y ago
Two orbital things we might look for:
1. Activity in geostationary orbits.
2. Orbits where the planet's year is exactly divisible by its day, eliminating leap years.
- jl6 3y agoAre you suggesting #2 is sufficiently unlikely to occur naturally that it becomes a likely technosignature of an alien race whose programmers got so fed up with calendrical calculations that they megaengineered their planet’s rotation as a way of streamlining their datetime libraries?
- psychlops 3y agoProgrammers with that amount of political power are definitely a sign of an advanced race.
- yencabulator 3y agoBased on our experience on Earth so far, that seems to be the easier route to correct code.