Can The World's Most Powerful Telescope Find Alien Civilizations? - Inverse

While the Event Horizon Telescope was able to image the black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of our Milky Way, but Nathaniel Scharping outlines the advantages and challenges posed by having such a giant telescope but not knowing where to precisely aim it. At the low end of the spectrum, there are a hundred thousand million stars in our galaxy yet Jamie Carter writes There Could Be 42,777 Intelligent Alien Civilizations In Our Galaxy which isn't even a drop in the galactic bucket and he shows his math. Hoping to increase the odds, and extraterrestrial population, Paul Sutter reckons The Aliens Are All Hanging Out On Dyson Spheres Circling White Dwarfs considering the methuselean lifespans of these stellar objects. For a deeper dive on this maverick proposal, Paul Glister tackles The White Dwarf Factor. My own two cents is K-type stars would be better candidates being long-lived, more sunlike, but less tempermental than their M-class cousins. But who needs stinkin' planets when Aliens Will Be 'Electronic Entities' Not Little Green Men. Lord Rees tells David Clark of his conjecture, his rationale, and spends a little time throwing shade on UFOlogy as well. Sigh. (CS)

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