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Astronomers seek evidence of tech built by aliens:
An international team of scientists led by a prominent Harvard astronomer announced a new initiative Monday to look for evidence of technology built by extraterrestrial civilizations.
Called the Galileo Project, it envisages the creation of a global network of medium-sized telescopes, cameras and computers to investigate unidentified flying objects, and has so far been funded with $1.75 million from private donors.
Given recent research showing the prevalence of Earth-like planets throughout the galaxy, "We can no longer ignore the possibility that technological civilizations predated us," Professor Avi Loeb told reporters at a news conference.
"The impact of any discovery of extraterrestrial technology on science, our technology, and on our entire world view, would be enormous," he added in a statement.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 03 2021, @12:23AM
You say it like we've had lots of coverage in the search space. Just because it literally is a lot of searching for us as a species, doesn't mean we've actually covered a lot.
Absence of evidence in the result of a tiny fraction of the search space is just absence of effort not evidence.