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3 weeks agoSomething May Be Scrambling Alien Messages, NASA-Funded Research Finds
Space weather phenomena near alien planets could broaden and scatter extraterrestrial signals across multiple frequencies, making them undetectable by current SETI searches focused on narrow frequency bands.
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1 month agoBarack Obama Said Aliens 'Are Real'
It says a lot about how crazy our world is these days that the former president of the United States can casually say "[aliens] are real" in a podcast, and it was a story for maybe a weekend afternoon. Part of the reason this is not a bigger revelation is that Barack Obama squashed it, putting out a statement after this answer raised some eyebrows to try to lower them and downplay what he said.
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5 months agoBored aliens': has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth?
Now, scientists are mulling an intriguing possibility: if aliens exist, their technology may be only marginally better than ours. And having explored their cosmic neighbourhood for a while, they simply got bored and stopped bothering, making it difficult to detect them. The scenario, described in a new paper, embraces the principle of radical mundanity, which shuns the notion of extraterrestrials zipping around the universe after harnessing physics beyond our comprehension.
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6 months agoScientist Says Galaxies Shining With Radio Signals Could Indicate Numerous Advanced Civilizations
Galaxies with strong radio emissions may result from numerous star-faring civilizations reproducing and broadcasting, producing uneven technosignature distributions across galaxies.
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