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| Permalink View Article Stats (1 comment) Promoted to Headline (H4) on 11/6/11: City Lights Could Reveal E.t. Civilization, By Sciencedaily Quicklink submitted by GLloyd Rowsey (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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Dateline: Nov. 3, 2011 -- In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, astronomers have hunted for radio signals and ultra-short laser pulses. In a new paper, Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and Edwin Turner (Princeton University) suggest a new technique for finding aliens: look for their city lights. 'Looking for alien cities would be a long shot, but wouldn't require extra resources. And if we succeed, it would change our perception of our place in the universe,' said Loeb. {Pictured is an artist's rendering of a possible exo-planet's city lights.} |
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