The Best Place to Look for Alien Megastructures Might Be Moon Dust
Researchers say lunar regolith could preserve micron-scale debris from extinct megastructures, offering a passive technosignature search beyond radio signals.
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The Best Place to Look for Alien Megastructures Might Be Moon Dust
Our search for technosignatures - clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth - takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological civilizations there are in the Milky Way. However, there’s a big fat question mark at the end of that equation in the form of a variable intended to account for the “longevity” of a civilization. And to be clear, that doesn’t mean how long the civi…
A recent study suggests that lunar dust may be a promising location for the search for signs of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations. The research, led by astrophysicist Brian C. Lacki, suggests that instead of searching for active signals, such as radio waves, detecting traces of inactive megastructures may be more feasible. Context of research on advanced civilizations: The search for technological civilizations beyond Earth is a central th…
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