{"id":31413,"date":"2016-10-26T16:46:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T23:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/this-might-be-our-best-shot-at-finding-that-alien-megastructure"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:20:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:20:30","slug":"this-might-be-our-best-shot-at-finding-that-alien-megastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/this-might-be-our-best-shot-at-finding-that-alien-megastructure","title":{"rendered":"This Might Be Our Best Shot at Finding That \u2018Alien Megastructure\u2019"},"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\/f5e6WniARE8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since it was<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-many-many-times-astronomers-mistook-mundane-phenom-1736795901#_ga=1.157324218.1891732734.1465819606\" rel=\"nofollow\"> first suggested<\/a> that the flickering star known as KIC 8462852 <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/aliens-or-not-theres-still-a-lot-to-discover-in-nasas-1737062081\" rel=\"nofollow\">might be a Dyson Sphere<\/a>, telescope-toting astronomers associated with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) have been scouring the system for signs of aliens. Now, the most well-funded SETI program on Earth\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/the-search-for-alien-intelligence-got-a-100-million-bo-1718992309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Berkeley\u2019s Breakthrough Listen <\/a>\u2014is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/2016\/10\/25\/breakthrough-listen-to-search-for-intelligent-life-around-weird-star\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">getting in on the hunt, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-might-be-our-best-shot-at-finding-that-alien-megas-1788235627?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Gizmodo_facebook\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-might-be-our-best-shot-at-finding-th...o_facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it was first suggested that the flickering star known as KIC 8462852 might be a Dyson Sphere, telescope-toting astronomers associated with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) have been scouring the system for signs of aliens. Now, the most well-funded SETI program on Earth\u2014 UC Berkeley\u2019s Breakthrough Listen \u2014is getting in on the hunt, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31413","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59948,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31413\/revisions\/59948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}