Atmospheric pollution may not be among mankind’s proudest achievements, but it’s an incontrovertible sign that we are here. Could something similar help us find civilizations on other planets? That’s the premise behind one of several recently announced new approaches to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Pollutants like Earth’s in the atmospheres of other worlds could serve as biosignatures indicating the presence of advanced civilizations there, said a team of researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Sure let us throw more time, effort, and money at a question that has been answered for more then twenty plus years. Instead of asking ourselves this question; How are we going to deal with the fact of alien civilizations? When we can't even be civilized with those of us on our own planet as a race. Although it does improve our chances if we are given the ability to learn from more distant cultures.
Exhibit A: UFO 'battle' over Nuremberg, Germany in 1561
"However, we don't have any idea what the probability is that these conditions will actually lead to life developing, or the probability that basic life evolves intelligence," he added. "If we take the very, very large number of possible places life could emerge, and multiply it by a very small probability of it happening, we might still get just one."
That quotation seems to fly in the face of Fermi. Or is there something I am missing? I have always thought that the Universe is teeming with life and we are just not possessing of the technology to let us see it, yet.
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Stepping Up the Search for ET
Posted by: Katherine Noyes August 11, 2014 01:41 PMAtmospheric pollution may not be among mankind’s proudest achievements, but it’s an incontrovertible sign that we are here. Could something similar help us find civilizations on other planets? That’s the premise behind one of several recently announced new approaches to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Pollutants like Earth’s in the atmospheres of other worlds could serve as biosignatures indicating the presence of advanced civilizations there, said a team of researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Exhibit A: UFO 'battle' over Nuremberg, Germany in 1561
That quotation seems to fly in the face of Fermi. Or is there something I am missing? I have always thought that the Universe is teeming with life and we are just not possessing of the technology to let us see it, yet.