{"id":152670,"date":"2022-12-12T15:27:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-jupiter-sized-spacecraft-scientists-say-existing-instruments-could-detect-alien-technology"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:27:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:27:13","slug":"a-jupiter-sized-spacecraft-scientists-say-existing-instruments-could-detect-alien-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-jupiter-sized-spacecraft-scientists-say-existing-instruments-could-detect-alien-technology","title":{"rendered":"A Jupiter-sized spacecraft? Scientists say existing instruments could detect alien technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-jupiter-sized-spacecraft-scientists-say-existing-instruments-could-detect-alien-technology2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to be on the team figuring out how to build a Jupiter-sized spacecraft, but the odds aren\u2019t zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists believes we may be able to detect alien spacecraft flying through distant solar systems using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Though the scientists from Applied Physics, a research institute in New York, concede that gravitational wave (GW) detection is \u201cin its infancy\u201d, they also say it is \u201ca sophisticated science\u201d that could be used to \u201cdetect extra-terrestrial mega-technology,\u201d in a paper available in pre-print server arXiv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to be on the team figuring out how to build a Jupiter-sized spacecraft, but the odds aren\u2019t zero.\u201d A team of scientists believes we may be able to detect alien spacecraft flying through distant solar systems using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US. Though the scientists from Applied Physics, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152670","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}