If We Want to Find Aliens, We Should Search for the Ones Searching for Us
A pair of astrophysicists have proposed a new strategy for searching for intelligent extraterrestrial life: point our telescopes in the direction where, if life exists, it may have already found us. “We’re mostly interested in the answer to the question: where in the sky are they?” said René Heller, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany, and the co-author of a paper detailing this strategy published online Tuesday in Astrobiology.
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