I'm a big fan of the Zoo Hypothesis ("we're awful, they avoid us" variant) but let's not declare the Galaxy devoid of civilisations just yet lads. #SETI
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https://laserseti.net/new-sets-of-wheels/
On the left, you’ll see an off-the-shelf appliance dolly. Cheap and easy to obtain, but it only allows access to the wiring area in the instrument base with the panels removed and with the dolly somewhat awkwardly interfering with said access. On the right, we’ve machined custom aluminum “legs” with casters, so the bottom panels can stay on and even be opened or closed as necessary.
"Scientists from the #Alaska Whale Foundation and #SETI teamed up to have a 20-minute conversation with a #humpback whale in her own #language. The scientists played a contact call to the whale, who responded each time closely matching the intervals, indicating that the #whale was engaged in an intentional exchange." ... she's still wondering what the heck that was 😆😂 🐳 💬
https://www.sci.news/https://www.sci.news/biology/whale-seti-12528.html
The Whale-SETI team, which includes researchers from the SETI Institute, University of California Davis and the Alaska Whale Foundation, has been studying humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) communication systems in an effort to develop intelligence filters for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
“We are constantly searching the skies in order to find evidence of other life in the universe,” said Dr. Vishal Gajjar, a staff astronomer with the SETI Institute.
A team of scientists from the SETI Institute, University of California Davis, and the Alaska Whale Foundation have had a close encounter with a non-human (aquatic) intelligence. In response to a recorded humpback ‘contact’ call played into the sea via an underwater speaker, a humpback whale named “Twain” approached and circled the team’s boat, while responding in a conversational style to the whale ‘greeting signal.’
The Barrow scale is sort of the inverse of the Kardashev scale.
Instead of ranking a civilization by increasing amounts of power they control, rank by decreasing size of objects that can be manipulated.
The Breakthrough Listen search for intelligent life is, to date, the most extensive technosignature search of nearby celestial objects. We present a radio technosignature search of the centers of 97 nearby galaxies, observed by Breakthrough Listen at the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope. We performed a narrowband Doppler...
Speaking of M13 (which I shoehorned into the Gold Star segment of our #astronomy episode despite it not winning), here is a graphic representation the Arecibo message!
NEXT #SETILIVE - Drifting Signals: New Boundaries for Radio Technosignatures
TODAY, Nov 30, 2:30 PM PST
In a new study, researchers used the known population of exoplanets to set better thresholds for planetary effects on signals from ETIs (extraterrestrial intelligences).
Join lead author Megan Grace Li, a Ph.D. student at UCLA in UCLA SETI, as she chats with Beth Johnson about her work and what it means for the future of SETI searches.
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The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Technosignature Search of 97 Nearby Galaxies (arxiv.org)
The Breakthrough Listen search for intelligent life is, to date, the most extensive technosignature search of nearby celestial objects. We present a radio technosignature search of the centers of 97 nearby galaxies, observed by Breakthrough Listen at the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope. We performed a narrowband Doppler...