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#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Future Civilization Out There?

I think if you had something, I can imagine something like a prime number sequence or mathematical sequence like the Fibonacci series something being broken. Practically, provable that this is not a physical phenomenon. But of course, a radio thing is just not going to work there because it has have a power source and that's a piece of machinery will eventually break down. And so you wanted something that was kind of passive that doesn't require an energy source but can somehow transmit information. So I'm going to be in my proposal by one of my colleagues, Lucan Oud, which inspired a lot of us and technosignatures. He suggested that you could build artificial transitors

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