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#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Are the Things That Will Change Astronomy Over the Next 100 Years?
In the next 10, 20 years we're hoping to take these pale blue images we spoke about. So that requires building something like JBST but on even larger scale and optimize for direct imaging. There's a clever trick for doing this without physically building a telescope as the size of the sun, and that's to use the sun as gravitational lens. And with that kind of capability, you could image planets to kilometer scale resolution from afar. That really makes you wonder. What might other civilizations be currently observing about our own planet? I mean, if we can conceive, maybe we can't engineer it. But there's certainly a huge amount which is significantly cheaper than flying there just exploiting
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