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Browsing that site, The SETI Institute appears to have expanded beyond its original goal of finding extraterrestrial intelligence into astrobiology and more. Pe
by pcrh 2mo ago
Browsing that site, The SETI Institute appears to have expanded beyond its original goal of finding extraterrestrial intelligence into astrobiology and more. Perhaps the first attempts at detecting alien radio signals hoped too much?
I have little doubt that, given the infinite size of the universe, that extraterrestrial intelligence (of some sort) exists, the question is whether we will ever detect it... It perhaps even exists as close to us as Europa, should we attempt a landing there...
- klez 2mo agoNo, ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE!
- lysace 2mo agoThere's a flyby in 2030, but no landing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper The landing plan was scrapped last year. :/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Lander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Lander
- Enginerrrd 2mo agoDetecting radio signals never made much sense to me. Even a few light years away, it’s almost infeasible to build a radio transmitter that could be detected above the noise floor. The amount of energy you’d need would be absurdly wasteful.
- msdz 2mo agoWasteful by whose standards? If you’re an alien civilization with several dyson spheres, surely at some point you’d have sufficient energy/resources even for such a “hopeless” science-y project, right?