According to researchers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), we might soon be able to detect hints of technologically
advanced alien civilizations by measuring high levels of polluting gases in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets.
Again, this is not a comment on the absolute likelihood of finding complex life there; rather, it means that if an external observer (such as a
technically advanced alien civilization) were to observe both Earth and Gliese 581c from light - years away, with only limited information at their disposal, they might be led to conclude that Gliese 581c is the more likely candidate for hosting life — at least, if they were using the same formula.
Basically, the authors of the study — Avi Loeb and Manasvi Lingam — state that the millisecondlong FRBs may be the result of a
sufficiently advanced alien civilization trying to power spacecraft equipped with light sails (something that scientists have also thought about doing).
«Maybe we're in a lab and there's
some advanced alien civilization that's just watching how we develop, out of curiosity, like mold in a petri dish.»
KIC 8462852 or «Tabby's star» has dimmed like this several times before, prompting some researchers to suggest that the megastructures of
an advanced alien civilization might be blocking its light.
Despite widespread speculation, the possibility of the signals coming from
an advanced alien civilization has been largely ruled out.
He said that
an advanced alien civilization would eventually develop the technology to harness energy from its star.
The scientists also say similar shields could already be in use by
advanced alien civilizations.