{"id":96590,"date":"2019-09-23T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T22:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/physicists-have-designed-a-laser-defence-system-to-cloak-earth-from-bad-guy-aliens"},"modified":"2019-09-23T15:22:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T22:22:39","slug":"physicists-have-designed-a-laser-defence-system-to-cloak-earth-from-bad-guy-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/physicists-have-designed-a-laser-defence-system-to-cloak-earth-from-bad-guy-aliens","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Have Designed a Laser Defence System to Cloak Earth From Bad-Guy Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-have-designed-a-laser-defence-system-to-cloak-earth-from-bad-guy-aliens2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2016<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We humans are pretty into the idea of finding aliens, but have we really thought through what would happen if we stumbled across extraterrestrial intelligence that didn\u2019t want to \u2018come in peace\u2019, and instead was hell-bent on mining our fair planet for everything it\u2019s got?<\/p>\n<p>No? Well, luckily for us reckless daydreamers, astronomers have our back, and have come up with a pretty solid plan that would cloak our planet from any bad-guy aliens out there looking for us. And it relies entirely on lasers (what else?).<\/p>\n<p>So how does it work? In order to find planets outside our Solar System, we watch other stars and look for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-comet-swarm-can-t-explain-that-alien-megastructure-star-after-all\">signs of their light dimming periodically<\/a>, which indicates that a planet is passing in front of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2016 We humans are pretty into the idea of finding aliens, but have we really thought through what would happen if we stumbled across extraterrestrial intelligence that didn\u2019t want to \u2018come in peace\u2019, and instead was hell-bent on mining our fair planet for everything it\u2019s got? No? Well, luckily for us reckless daydreamers, astronomers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96590","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}