Every single place? Wow:
The Exotica Catalog was put together by researchers from Breakthrough Listen, a decade-long program seeking to find signs of intelligent life in the universe. It ambitiously includes “one of everything” in astronomy. Incredibly, the catalog lists over 700 distinct targets, ranging from asteroids, comets, and planets through to pulsars, galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters. The point of the catalog is to “expand the diversity of targets surveyed in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI),” according to the team’s paper, but the compendium could be leveraged for other purposes.
“In the future, it might also benefit students or members of the public who are trying to get a big-picture overview of astronomy or are trying to decide what to study,” Brian Lacki, a Breakthrough Listen researcher from the Department of Astronomy at the University of California Berkeley and first author of the paper, wrote in an email to Gizmodo. “Some of the objects on the lists were things I didn’t learn about until grad school or later, or even until we were compiling the catalog.”
George Dvorsky, “Scientists Made a List of Every Place Aliens Could Be Hiding” at Gizmodo
In that case, they can’t be smarter than us.
Paper. (open access)
Big fail. They don’t list Dyson spheres or wormholes. Incomplete. Sorry.
as to:
They expanded their search for ET intelligence away from the traditional SETI search for ET intelligence,
As we can see, although they expanded their search for intelligence away from the traditional SETI search for ET intelligence, they still are presupposing that there is something special about intelligence that sets it completely apart from the purely physical processes of the universe.
Yet if they accept Darwinian evolution as being true, which I assume that they do, then they are wedded to methodological naturalism in which it is held that there is really nothing special about intelligence but that intelligence itself is reducible to physical explanation.
But if there was nothing truly unique about intelligence that sets it completely apart from the purely physical processes of the universe then, as Paul Nelson pointed out, “we’re back to physics versus physics, and there’s nothing for SETI to look for.”
As to this honest confession on their part that,
LOL, you don’t say!
That honest confession on their part that they ‘may’ be looking in the wrong places for Intelligence reminded me of the following,
Here is a humorous video clip about a oh so ‘coincidental’ phone call at SETI that had a very interesting timing as to its occurrence
I suggest that these SETI researchers look a little higher than interstellar space for Intelligence. It just might be the right place to look for “some alien intelligences (that) might be exceptionally different from us”,,,
As a Christian who has seen a few answered prayers during my life, I find it strange that the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) organization spends millions of dollars vainly searching for signs of extra-terrestrial life in this universe, when all anyone has to do to make solid contact with THE primary ‘extra-terrestrial intelligence’ of the entire universe is to pray with a sincere heart.
God, who created heaven and earth, certainly does not hide from those who sincerely need and seek Him.
I would think that personally communicating with the Creator of the universe would be a lot more exciting than not communicating with some little green men that in all realistic probability, given their premise of naturalism, do not even exist.
God, who created heaven and earth, certainly does not hide from those who sincerely need and seek Him.
Supplemental note,
Verse:
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Scientists Have Listed Every Place Aliens Could Be Hiding?
Before or after crossing the border?
🙂