{"id":224611,"date":"2025-11-06T01:15:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/alien-probes-could-already-lurk-in-our-solar-system-study-says"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:15:36","slug":"alien-probes-could-already-lurk-in-our-solar-system-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/alien-probes-could-already-lurk-in-our-solar-system-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Alien Probes Could Already Lurk in Our Solar System, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alien-probes-could-already-lurk-in-our-solar-system-study-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, where he introduced the concept of \u201cuniversal constructor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The theory was further detailed in the 1966 book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/cba.mit.edu\/events\/03.11.ASE\/docs\/VonNeumann.pdf\">Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata<\/a><\/em>, a collection of von Neumann\u2019s writings compiled and completed by a colleague after his death.<\/p>\n<p>In the years that followed, scientists engaged in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seti.org\/\">Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence<\/a> (SETI) considered how advanced civilizations could rely on self-replicating probes to explore the galaxy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, where he introduced the concept of \u201cuniversal constructor.\u201d The theory was further detailed in the 1966 book, Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata, a collection of von Neumann\u2019s writings compiled and completed by a colleague after his death. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224611","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}