Professor Michael Garrett
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And then a couple of months later, someone finds out, well, it was an artifact in the data.
It was a problem with your telescope, with your CCD camera or whatever.
So one of the things that's really enshrined in the guidelines is that if you think you've made this discovery,
then you need to share it with some colleagues, maybe with another telescope that can sort of reproduce the result with a different telescope, with a different team, you know, scientific team with different analysis software so that you can really get an independent verification of the discovery.
And only then should you really start to think about, you know, how am I going to communicate this to the scientific community and to the general public.
Well, I think we definitely get messages which basically say, look, they're already amongst us.
The aliens are already here.
So like, why are you searching?
You know, that's quite a common one.
We don't get so many people claiming that they have discovered a techno signature, you know, this sort of astronomy telltale sign of, you know, another technical civilization.
But we do get a lot of people who believe that,
We've already been visited, and we're not admitting it, and we should be admitting it, and we should stop this search because we already know that actually we've detected intelligent life, and they're amongst us, as they would say.
Yeah, there is.
I mean, basically any advanced civilization.
And we're thinking, you know, with the instruments that we have at our disposal at the moment, we're thinking of civilizations that are probably a lot more advanced than we are.
probably using a lot more energy than we do on on this planet although as you probably see you know the amount of energy that we use is continually growing partly at the moment fueled by AI for example but we expect you know other civilizations to really be using a lot of energy we use a lot of energy and you're busy doing stuff on a grand scale you know building stuff or
communicating over long distances, all that stuff kind of imprints itself on astronomy.
When we're looking at other planets or other stars or planets going round stars, then we can see that kind of activity in our data.
And what we are looking for in particular is sort of emissions that we can easily distinguish between the natural emissions that occur from just the normal emission from planets and stars and galaxies.
We're looking for artificial emission.
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