Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Focus Should Be Finding Advanced Alien Machines
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been ongoing for more than half a century, and its senior astronomer believes that humanity should alter its search parameters to include — if not actually focus on — intelligent alien machines. Space.com reported this week that Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, believes that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence may be — or may have been — looking in the wrong areas for intelligence and could have missed it due to the fact that much of the intelligence in the universe might not be living. Pointing out that astronomers and astrophysicists (not to mention astrobiologists) have been searching the data for signs of alien life analogous to living organisms on planet Earth, he suggested that such an assumption could be…
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