Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
user-inactivated · 4086 days ago · link · · parent · post: Are We Observing Extraterrestrial Intelligence Without Realizing It?
I don't really get the title because if there's intelligent life anywhere in the universe, we're likely observing it just be looking at the sky.
theadvancedapes · 4086 days ago · link ·
The title is meant to mean that we are actually studying physical objects in great detail that are actually intelligent in their nature. If this is the case we are trying to apply astrophysical models to systems that are actually "super global brains" or "starivores" as Clem Vidal would call them. This would be quite different than a scenario where there are intelligent civilizations elsewhere in the universe but we had yet to identify their systems.