Ten Versions of Earth's Future Can Help Us Hunt for ET

Ten Versions of Earth's Future Can Help Us Hunt for ET
By Andy Tomaswick (https://ift.tt/uKcmzBW)

Searching for technosignatures - signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afr - remains a difficult task. There are so many different factors to consider, and we only have the technological capabilities to detect a relatively small collection of them. A new paper, available in pre-print on arXiv but also accepted for publication into The Astrophysical Journal Letters, from Jacob Haqq-Misra of the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science and his co-authors explores some of those capabilities by using a framework they developed known as Project Janus that estimates what technology will look like on Earth 1,000 years from now in the hopes that we can test whether or not we can detect it on another planet.

December 4, 2025 at 05:52PM
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