Some might even suggest they may be messages from
advanced alien civilisations but many experts have predicted that the bursts are emitted when jets of particles are thrown out by massive astrophysical objects, such as black holes.
In theory
an advanced alien civilisation could produce a lot of waste heat and still maintain a stable climate by using geoengineering to counteract waste - heat warming.
If that is where is came from, it would have had to be a pretty powerful astronomical event — or
an advanced alien civilisation using an astonishingly large and powerful transmitter.
The possibility, however remote it might have seemed, didn't escape the attention of the SETI Institute which swiftly focused the Allen Telescope Array on KIC 8462852, in the search for any radio signals of artificial origin that could have potentially been emitted by
an advanced alien civilisation native to the neighboring star system, with initial results finding no such detection to date.
Not exact matches
But as we do not know the character of any
aliens out there, and as it is difficult to put a value on the benefits to science, culture and technology of finding an
advanced civilisation, de Vladar varied the reward of finding
aliens and the cost of hostile
aliens finding us.