Space Colonization Options (Orbiting Stations, planets/moons)

[PumpkinSpiceFoodCube]

Interesting...

Buuuut... Putting on my tinfoil hat for a moment what if signals like WOW were just carrier waves from travelling ships sending out a "we're ok don't worry" signal back home to let people know they were ok.

I refuse to believe that in the billions and billions of light years of our galaxy that Earth is the single only planet with intelligent life. That's just way too arrogant to think that.

Intelligent life like dolphins, neanderthals and mantis shrimp might be not compeltely uncommon. But spacefaring life? It must be incredibly rare. We should have seen some definitive signs of stellar engineering by now. Unless that's what cosmic expansion is, and if so, that's less than reassuring. Tabby's's star was looking like what we were hoping for but doesn't seem likely now.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Interesting...

Buuuut... Putting on my tinfoil hat for a moment what if signals like WOW were just carrier waves from travelling ships sending out a "we're ok don't worry" signal back home to let people know they were ok.

I refuse to believe that in the billions and billions of light years of our galaxy that Earth is the single only planet with intelligent life. That's just way too arrogant to think that.

What if all the Aliens are using a form of "FTL Radio Communication", equivalent to ST SubSpace Radiowaves?

Something where the Radio or EM Signals travels at FTL speeds in a domain we don't understand how to access?

A requirement to join the "InterStellar Community to make First Contact" is to figure out the FTL Radio, otherwise, we're too primitive to even talk to?

We're stuck with Primitive STL Radio Waves, which don't travel fast enough to be "Useful" at Long Distance InterStellar communications?

 

[Candlicious Ghost]

What if all the Aliens are using a form of "FTL Radio Communication", equivalent to ST SubSpace Radiowaves?

Something where the Radio or EM Signals travels at FTL speeds in a domain we don't understand how to access?

A requirement to join the "InterStellar Community to make First Contact" is to figure out the FTL Radio, otherwise, we're too primitive to even talk to?

We're stuck with Primitive STL Radio Waves, which don't travel fast enough to be "Useful" at Long Distance InterStellar communications?

Hey who knows? Maybe cracking interstellar communication is the sign of entry for a species. I'd love to see a story from that point of view

 

[publiusr]

At the risk of sounding like Avi…there might be a chance of encountering an extraterrestrial probe—here is a paper on what to look for:

Technosignature Searches of Interstellar Objects

With the discovery of the third confirmed interstellar object (ISO), 3I/ATLAS, we have entered a new phase in the exploration of these long-predicted objects. Though confirmed discovery of ISOs is quite recent, their utility as targets in the search for technosignatures (historically known as...

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