{"id":209332,"date":"2025-03-20T20:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T01:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/have-we-found-an-alien-stellar-engine-clement-vidal"},"modified":"2025-03-20T20:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T01:17:31","slug":"have-we-found-an-alien-stellar-engine-clement-vidal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/have-we-found-an-alien-stellar-engine-clement-vidal","title":{"rendered":"Have We Found an Alien Stellar Engine? | Cl\u00e9ment Vidal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fz8NkXLdt_c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Download Star Trek Fleet Command for FREE now here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3XYvSJ2\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3XYvSJ2<\/a> to support my channel, and enter the promo code VOYAGER30 to unlock Neelix, the morale officer from Voyager FREE.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cl\u00e9ment Vidal joins John Michael Godier to discuss his new paper on the Spider Stellar Engine, a hypothetical form of stellar propulsion using binary pulsar systems. The conversation explores how such systems could serve as **technosignatures**, the philosophy of post-biological civilizations, and the potential for advanced beings to manipulate entire stars or even create new universes.<\/p>\n<p>Vidal, C. 2024. \u201cThe Spider Stellar Engine: A Fully Steerable Extraterrestrial Design?\u201d Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 77 : 156\u201366. doi:10.59332\/jbis-077\u201305-0156. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2411.05038\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2411.05038<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vidal, C. 2019. \u201cPulsar Positioning System: A Quest for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Engineering.\u201d International Journal of Astrobiology 18 : 213\u201334. doi:10.1017\/S147355041700043X. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1704.03316\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1704.03316<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Delahaye, J. P., and C. Vidal. 2018. \u201cOrganized Complexity: Is Big History a Big Computation?\u201d American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 17 : 49\u201354. <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1609.07111\">http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1609.07111<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#EventHorizon #SETI #Technosignatures #Astrophysics #StellarEngines #FermiParadox #ExtraterrestrialLife #Pulsars #SpaceExploration #PhilosophyOfScience #cosmology.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/have-we-found-an-alien-stellar-engine-clement-vidal\">Continue reading \u201cHave We Found an Alien Stellar Engine? | Cl\u00e9ment Vidal\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download Star Trek Fleet Command for FREE now here: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3XYvSJ2 to support my channel, and enter the promo code VOYAGER30 to unlock Neelix, the morale officer from Voyager FREE. Dr. Cl\u00e9ment Vidal joins John Michael Godier to discuss his new paper on the Spider Stellar Engine, a hypothetical form of stellar propulsion using binary pulsar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1523,38,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-computing","category-engineering","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209332","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}