The Case for Technosignatures: Why They May Be Abundant, Long-lived, Highly Detectable, and Unambiguous
Jason T. Wright,
Jacob Haqq-Misra,
Adam Frank
et al.
Abstract:The intuition suggested by the Drake Equation implies that technology should be less prevalent than biology in the galaxy. However, it has been appreciated for decades in the SETI community that technosignatures could be more abundant, longer-lived, more detectable, and less ambiguous than biosignatures.We collect the arguments for and against technosignatures' ubiquity, and discuss the implications of some properties of technological life that fundamentally differ from non-technological life, in the context o… Show more
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