Why Avi Loeb and a group of scientists plan to search for alien technology
Avi Loeb, the Galileo Project’s Director of Research and Development, explains why we should perform interstellar archaeological research and how they plan to recover a space object from the bottom the ocean.
\”Any chemically propelled spacecraft, such as the five that we have sent into interstellar spaces (Voyager 1 and 2, Pioneer 10 and 11, and New Horizons) remained gravitationally bonded to the Milky Way even after the civilizations had died. The characteristic speed of their tens-of-kilometers per second is a factor of one order of magnitude slower than the escape velocity out of the Milky Way. These rockets could populate the Milky Way disc and move at speeds similar to those of the stars within it.
This realization leads to a new frontier in research called \”interstellar archaeological\” which is a search for objects from the cosmic street that surrounds our Solar system. These interstellar objects may look very different from asteroids and comets, which are natural relics of construction projects on the Solar System planets. Archaeology is a field that searches for relics of ancient cultures. \”We can do the exact same thing in space.\”
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/
The Galileo Project aims to move the search for Extraterrestrial Technological Civilizations’ (ETCs), from anecdotal or accidental observations, to a transparent, validated, and systematic scientific approach. This project complements traditional SETI in that it looks for physical objects and not electromagnetic signals associated with extraterrestrial technology equipment.
The Galileo Project has set two specific goals within this goal that correspond to the two areas of research we are studying:
Examine the possibility that unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) may have an extraterrestrial source by observing objects in or near Earth’s atmospheric layer, filtering out identifiable items using AI deep-learning algorithms trained on the rigorous classification of known object, and then examining nature of remaining data to look for anomalous features.
Understanding the origins and characteristics of interstellar bodies (ISOs), such as ‘Oumuamua that are different from asteroids and comests typical to our solar system, by combining astronomical, atmospheric, and space-based observations.
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home.
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