{"id":109218,"date":"2020-06-27T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/nasa-funds-harvard-hunt-for-alien-technological-civilizations"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:05:13","slug":"nasa-funds-harvard-hunt-for-alien-technological-civilizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/nasa-funds-harvard-hunt-for-alien-technological-civilizations","title":{"rendered":"NASA Funds Harvard Hunt for Alien \u201cTechnological Civilizations\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-funds-harvard-hunt-for-alien-technological-civilizations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of astronomers from Harvard and other institutions are collaborating on a new project to scan the skies for technological signatures from alien civilizations.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a noteworthy new project, as it\u2019s the first to receive a NASA grant for <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/tags\/seti\">SETI<\/a>-specific research in more than 30 years, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-06-scientists-collaborate-universe-technological-civilizations.html\">a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnosignatures relate to signatures of advanced alien technologies similar to, or perhaps more sophisticated than, what we possess,\u201d said Avi Loeb, the chair of the Harvard astronomy department Harvard, in a statement. \u201cSuch signatures might include industrial pollution of atmospheres, city lights, photovoltaic cells (solar panels), megastructures, or swarms of satellites.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of astronomers from Harvard and other institutions are collaborating on a new project to scan the skies for technological signatures from alien civilizations. It\u2019s a noteworthy new project, as it\u2019s the first to receive a NASA grant for SETI-specific research in more than 30 years, according to a statement. \u201cTechnosignatures relate to signatures [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,2028,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-satellites","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}