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Devac · 112 days ago · link · · parent · post: Advanced Civilizations Could be Indistinguishable from Nature
Well, the alternative is looking for things we can't name or (even approximately) explain, which is a much tougher sell since we most likely can't even measure them. I'd be down for hunting self-propagating spacetime defects and parasitic patterns in dark matter, but LIGO lacks around 9 orders of magnitude in resolution.I remember an article arguing that obviously we should be looking at tight-beam red lasers back in like '89; there was another one claiming we should be looking at x-ray lasers like five years later.
But you need to justify your time on the radiotelescope, right?