Instead Of Aliens, We Must Look For Signs Of Their Dead Civilizations - Alternative View

Instead Of Aliens, We Must Look For Signs Of Their Dead Civilizations - Alternative View
Instead Of Aliens, We Must Look For Signs Of Their Dead Civilizations - Alternative View

Video: Instead Of Aliens, We Must Look For Signs Of Their Dead Civilizations - Alternative View

Video: Instead Of Aliens, We Must Look For Signs Of Their Dead Civilizations - Alternative View
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Scientists have proposed a new theory that explains the lack of contact with alien civilizations. Researchers believe that instead of aliens, astronomers should look for traces of thermonuclear wars or a robot uprising.

More than half a century ago, American astronomer Frank Drake developed a formula for calculating the number of civilizations in the galaxy with which contact is possible, trying to estimate the chances of detecting extraterrestrial intelligence and life, according to an article posted in the electronic library of Cornell University.

According to these data, there should be millions of habitable planets in the Galaxy. Physicist Enrico Fermi, in response to a rather high assessment of the chances of interplanetary contact, formulated what is now known as the Fermi paradox: if there are so many extraterrestrial civilizations, then why does humanity not observe any traces of them?

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Scientists have tried to solve the paradox in many ways - the most popular is the hypothesis of a "unique Earth", according to which a complex combination of millions of parameters is required for the origin of life, which makes living evolution an extremely rare phenomenon.

However, researchers from the University of St Andrews in Scotland offer an alternative explanation for the Fermi paradox - in their opinion, "brothers in mind" have simply already destroyed themselves in thermonuclear wars.

Scientists for contact with an alien civilization urge to look not for radio signals, but for traces of global cataclysms - nuclear ash in the atmosphere of the planets, ionization of gases and the green-blue glow of the planetary envelope, an increased concentration of hydrocarbons in the air after the destruction of life by a "combat" virus or traces of an ecological disaster.

Astronomers have already expressed hope that the dead alien civilizations will be discovered as part of the SETI project, which recently received substantial funding from Russian businessman Yuri Milner.

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