{"id":82499,"date":"2018-09-11T14:03:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T21:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/this-is-how-we-could-find-advanced-alien-civilizations"},"modified":"2018-09-15T12:26:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T19:26:42","slug":"this-is-how-we-could-find-advanced-alien-civilizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/this-is-how-we-could-find-advanced-alien-civilizations","title":{"rendered":"This is how we could find advanced alien civilizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-how-we-could-find-advanced-alien-civilizations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1960, American physicist Freeman Dyson proposed the idea that an extremely advanced\u2014and power-hungry\u2014alien civilization could, in theory, harness the majority of their host star\u2019s energy by building a vast structure around it to absorb its radiation.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists in the field of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) have carried out a number of searches for such structures, known as Dyson spheres\u2014which could be constructed using material harvested from dismantled planets\u2014without uncovering any compelling evidence for them.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a paper published in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/aac386\/meta\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Astrophysical Journal<\/a>,<\/em> researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden, and Heidelberg University, Germany, have proposed a new way to look for Dyson spheres that may have some advantages over previous attempts.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/dyson-spheres-how-we-could-find-advanced-alien-civilizations-1099999\">https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/dyson-spheres-how-we-could-find-adv...ns-1099999<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1960, American physicist Freeman Dyson proposed the idea that an extremely advanced\u2014and power-hungry\u2014alien civilization could, in theory, harness the majority of their host star\u2019s energy by building a vast structure around it to absorb its radiation. Scientists in the field of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) have carried out a number of searches for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82499","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82687,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82499\/revisions\/82687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}