Are Alien Intelligences Waiting to be Discovered?

The variables and problems in the ongoing search for extraterrestrial sentience.

A. S. Deller
Nov 2 · 8 min read
Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash

Elon Musk’s SpaceX sent a Tesla Roadster into space in February 2018. It will travel almost 250 million miles into space before shifting into an orbit around the Sun. And yet such an extreme distance is nothing compared to the cosmos as a whole.

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A. S. Deller

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