Science beyond SETI, NASA now searching for potenial alien mega-structures

[lawai'a]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbq7z/nasa-is-quietly-funding-a-hunt-for-alien-megastructures
NASA Is Quietly Funding a Hunt for Alien Megastructures
Detecting 'technosignatures' such as hypothetical Dyson spheres in space could lead us to extraterrestrial life, and now NASA is funding the search.

moving mainstream, funding of the search for alien technology signatures has begun again with fresh push from congress.

 

[jonnyboy]

Why are aliens all the rage all the sudden? And why is the government and science community so open about it now after decades of completely avoiding the subject? Call me crazy but I think it’s just a distraction.

 

[barfo]

It's a typo. Was meant to say

NASA Is Quietly Funding a Hunt for Alien MAGAstructures

It's the interstellar witch hunt.

 

[riverman]

Why are aliens all the rage all the sudden? And why is the government and science community so open about it now after decades of completely avoiding the subject? Call me crazy but I think it’s just a distraction.

They realize Trump now knows about them and won't keep his mouth shut so getting ahead of the problem...simple...used to be a need to know issue, now it's a "fuck me, he knows" situation!
I'm just joking, so hopefully this doesn't become an outrageous controversy!

 

[Chris Craig]

They realize Trump now knows about them and won't keep his mouth shut so getting ahead of the problem...simple...used to be a need to know issue, now it's a "fuck me, he knows" situation!
I'm just joking, so hopefully this doesn't become an outrageous controversy!

They didn't tell Trump shit I bet. You can't tell someone like that national secrets

 

[jonnyboy]

They realize Trump now knows about them and won't keep his mouth shut so getting ahead of the problem...simple...used to be a need to know issue, now it's a "fuck me, he knows" situation!
I'm just joking, so hopefully this doesn't become an outrageous controversy!

This really doesn’t sound that far fetched.

 

[Lanny]

They realize Trump now knows about them and won't keep his mouth shut so getting ahead of the problem...simple...used to be a need to know issue, now it's a "fuck me, he knows" situation!
I'm just joking, so hopefully this doesn't become an outrageous controversy!

I believe you and I believe you're not joking.

 

[Lanny]

They didn't tell Trump shit I bet. You can't tell someone like that national secrets

Even if you told him, would he understand it?

 

[jlprk]

Watch live now! Branson flying to space to beat Bezos.

LIVE: Virgin Galactic launches Richard Branson to space on Unity 22 - YouTube

 

[Shaboid]

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