Astronomers Seek Evidence of Tech Constructed by Aliens
An international group of scientists led by a renowned Harvard astronomer revealed a new initiative Monday to seek proof of technology built by extraterrestrial civilizations.
Named the Galileo Job, it envisions producing a worldwide network of medium-sized telescopes, video cameras, and computers to examine unknown flying objects. So far, it was funded with $1.75 million from private sponsors.
Considering recent research revealing the occurrence of Earth-like planets across the galaxy, “We can no more ignore the possibility that technological civilizations preceded us,” Professor Avi Loeb told press reporters at a news conference. “The effect of any exploration of extraterrestrial technology on science, our technology, as well as on our entire world view, would be massive,” he added in a declaration.
Researchers from Harvard, Princeton, Caltech, Cambridge, and the University of Stockholm participated in this project. It was revealed a month after the Pentagon published a report concerning unidentified aerial phenomena, which mentioned that their nature was unclear.”What we see in our sky is not something that political leaders or military personnel should analyze, since they were not educated as researchers, it is for the scientific community to figure out,” claimed Loeb, including that he hoped to increase the project’s financing by a tenfold.
Besides studying UFOs, the Galileo Project wants to examine objects that visit our planetary system from interstellar space and look for alien satellites that might be investigating Earth. Loeb describes such research as a new branch of astronomy he calls “space archaeology,” intended to complement the existing area of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), which mainly seeks unusual radio signals.
These endeavors will certainly require collaborations with existing and future astronomical surveys, including the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile that is supposed to go online in 2023 and is earnestly awaited by the scientific community.
The 59-year-old Israeli-American published hundreds of pioneering documents and worked with the late Stephen Hawking, yet created controversy when he proposed an interstellar object that briefly saw our system in 2017 could have been an alien probe cruising on solar winds.
He outlined his arguments in scientific documents and the book “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth,” which included ideas that many in the astronomy community challenged and disagreed with.
The brand-new project is accordingly named after Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, who was punished when he supplied vital proof that Earth was not the center of the universe. The project’s co-founder Frank Laukien, a visiting scholar at Harvard’s chemistry and chemical biology department, declared himself the “resident skeptic.” However, he stated that, as opposed to disregarding the suggestions outright, it was needed to “agnostically record as well as analyze the information according to the scientific method.”
Originally published on The Daily Star. Read the original article.
