Re: What Would Happen If China Made First Contact With Extraterrestrials?

In alt.astronomy a425couple <[email protected]> wrote:
> from
> https://thediplomat.com/2020/03/what-would-happen-if-china-made-first-contact-with-extraterrestrials/
> What Would Happen If China Made First Contact With Extraterrestrials?
> What would it mean if China were to make the greatest discovery in human 
> history?
> Abhijnan Rej
> By Abhijnan Rej
> March 11, 2020
> What Would Happen If China Made First Contact With Extraterrestrials?
> Credit: CC0 image via Pixabay
> In January, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope was declared 
> fully operational in China's Guizhou province. Beijing's steadfast 
> commitment to improving the nation's position as a leader in the basic 
> sciences can be gleaned from the fact that the construction of the 
> Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) was completed in 
> five years, a remarkable achievement for a project of its technical 
> complexity. The scientific mandate of FAST is many ways quite 
> conventional for a telescope of its size, including detection of "fast 
> radio bursts" - bursts of extremely powerful radio-waves from deep space 
> of varying duration whose origins remains a mystery. (In September last 
> year, FAST detected a significant number of such bursts from a single 
> source, a feat that could only be achieved due to the telescope's 
> sensitivity.)
> 
> It is, however, the inclusion of the search for extraterrestrial 
> intelligence (SETI) in FAST's scientific agenda that has attracted the 
> most media attention, not always savory. A February 2016 New York Times 
> article on FAST, for example, was headlined "China Telescope to Displace 
> 9,000 Villagers in Hunt for Extraterrestrials." Other media reporting 
> emphasized the inclusion of SETI in the telescope's research mandate at 
> the expense of commenting on its potentially path-breaking use to study 
> natural cosmic phenomena such as pulsars (distant geriatric stars made 
> of exotic nuclear matter).
> 
> There is also no fundamental reason, as astronomers has now come to see, 
> why detection of alien life may always need radio astronomy. 
> Increasingly, search for "techno-signatures" - signs of advanced alien 
> intelligence - now includes scanning other bands of the electromagnetic 
> spectrum, predominantly infrared waves. But that said, recent revisions 
> of the estimates of the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our 
> galaxy alone (up to 300,000) - sharpened by recent advances in 
> exoplanetology - points to the increasing probability of their detection.
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Hey. Now I know how to frame that grant application! :)

Can you look around planet earth and see any "techno signatures"
that seem to strongly correlation with reported sightings of unusual 
objects in the sky and ocean?

Is there any "waste heat"^h^h^hTechno Signature being emitted down at 
the bottom of the sea?

It's of course SOP to have the answers ready before you fill in the 
paperwork and use the money to actually fund your NEXT project.