Black Widow pulsars consume their partners. But if there were advanced alien species, it could be a perfect way to produce energy and move the stars around. They could also use pulsars as a global galactic navigation system. How exactly could they achieve it? Finding out in this interview.

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🟣 Guest: Dr. Clément Vidal
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📜 The Spider Stellar Engine: a Fully Steerable Extraterrestrial Design?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05038

📜 Pulsar Positioning System: A quest for evidence of extraterrestrial engineering
https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03316

00:00 Intro
01:33 Stellarvore
07:48 Moving stars around
17:57 Technosignatures
25:17 Pulsar galactic navigation system
29:44 Messaging system
39:43 Noosphere
43:48 Bonus part
44:08 Current obsessions
46:43 Final thoughts

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[Interview] How Black Widow Pulsars Can Be A Sign of Star-Eating Aliens