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Searching for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe: Technosignatures (scitechdaily.com)
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NASA's quest for extraterrestrial life now includes technosignatures, evidence of advanced civilizations on distant exoplanets. Through AI, new research methods, and a broadened focus, scientists remain hopeful in discovering life beyond Earth. Our first confirmed proof of life beyond Earth might

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Personally I don't think either of these approaches will actually bear fruit

Yeah, I ere on the side of pessimism on us ever contacting another intelligent species. It's fun to still try it, but the math is staggeringly against us. Even with trying to detect radio waves from another solar system, radio waves have their limits on how far away they can be detected before the cosmic background covers them up. The odds of us picking up on radio waves from another planet are... not good.