Technosignatures: The Evolving Quest for Detectable Signs of Intelligent Life

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Search for extraterrestrial life now centers on technosignatures—evidence that intelligent civilizations alter their environments—driven by the exoplanet boom and scholars like Adam Frank and Jill Tarter, with ideas from pollutants and solar panels to megastructures and ongoing debates about signaling versus listening and whether humanity should announce its presence.

Technosignatures are a sea change in the search for alien life | Aeon Essays
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Technosignatures are a sea change in the search for alien life | Aeon Essays

There’s a new plan to find extraterrestrial civilisations by the way they live. But if we can see them, can they see us?