{"id":84595,"date":"2018-11-08T16:25:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/mit-plans-for-a-giant-laser-porch-light-in-space-to-attract-aliens"},"modified":"2018-11-08T16:25:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:25:06","slug":"mit-plans-for-a-giant-laser-porch-light-in-space-to-attract-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/mit-plans-for-a-giant-laser-porch-light-in-space-to-attract-aliens","title":{"rendered":"MIT plans for a giant laser \u2018porch light\u2019 in space to attract aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2017\/11\/15\/3040733837647525395\/1024x576_MP4_3040733837647525395.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>A pair of MIT researchers has proposed a radical method for making our presence known in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>In a new feasibility study, the team says it could be possible to use laser technology as a beacon to attract the attention of alien astronomers, much like a planetary-scale porch light.<\/p>\n<p>Using a laser focused through a huge telescope, the researchers say this \u2018porch light\u2019 could be seen from as far as 20,000 light-years away.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6355427\/MIT-researchers-reveal-plan-giant-laser-porch-light-space-attract-aliens.html\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6355427\/MIT-...liens.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of MIT researchers has proposed a radical method for making our presence known in the universe. In a new feasibility study, the team says it could be possible to use laser technology as a beacon to attract the attention of alien astronomers, much like a planetary-scale porch light. Using a laser focused through [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84595","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}