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The Meaning Of Human Existence, And The Search For Alien Life - Avi Loeb

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Darwinian Selection of Intelligent Life Forms

Currently we have technology that can detect a Tokyo-sized city at the edge of the solar system. What are we technologically able to do in terms of space archaeology that could help us begin to gather or search for evidence about intelligent life forms? We don't expect any of the objects there to to produce its own light but you can tell if there is an object passing by like a spacecraft that is producing its itself light and not just reflecting sunlight. Just collecting data is not enough you have to be open-minded so for example them we visited with my family we visited the mexico a few years ago and then we went to to see the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza

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