{"id":179740,"date":"2024-01-03T13:28:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/astrobiologists-uncover-the-oxygen-bottleneck-in-the-search-for-alien-technosignatures"},"modified":"2024-01-03T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T19:28:12","slug":"astrobiologists-uncover-the-oxygen-bottleneck-in-the-search-for-alien-technosignatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/astrobiologists-uncover-the-oxygen-bottleneck-in-the-search-for-alien-technosignatures","title":{"rendered":"Astrobiologists Uncover the Oxygen Bottleneck in the Search for Alien Technosignatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astrobiologists-uncover-the-oxygen-bottleneck-in-the-search-for-alien-technosignatures.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe presence of high degrees of oxygen in the atmosphere is like a bottleneck you have to get through in order to have a technological species,\u201d said Dr. Adam Frank.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What are the criteria for an extraterrestrial civilization to become a technological species? This is what a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2308.01160\">recent study<\/a> published in Nature Astronomy hopes to figure out as a team of international researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1030120\">examine how oxygen plays a role in technological advancement<\/a>, specifically pertaining to it being a necessary requirement for producing fire. This study was partially funded by a NASA grant and holds the potential to help researchers better understand the criteria for identifying technological signatures of extraterrestrial intelligence, also known as \u201ctechnosignatures\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Illustration depicting how higher atmospheric oxygen levels could lead to technoligcal advancement for an extraterrestrial species, specifically pertaining to the creation of fire. (Credit: University of Rochester illustration \/ Michael Osadciw)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou might be able to get biology\u2014you might even be able to get intelligent creatures\u2014in a world that doesn\u2019t have oxygen, but without a ready source of fire, you\u2019re never going to develop higher technology because higher technology requires fuel and melting,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/atmospheric-oxygen-cosmic-technospheres-alien-technology-589242\/\">said Dr. Adam Frank<\/a>, who is Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester and co-author on the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe presence of high degrees of oxygen in the atmosphere is like a bottleneck you have to get through in order to have a technological species,\u201d said Dr. Adam Frank. What are the criteria for an extraterrestrial civilization to become a technological species? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179740","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\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}