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Burst 21 - The Absolute, Definitive Truth about Alien Megastructures

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Release Date: 01/02/2017

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Released: 2 January 2017

Duration: 15 minutes, 37 seconds

 

Based upon a Dream of the Open Channel blog entry, we discuss why there may not be any galaxy-scale megastructures, but what sort of stellar class megastructures could we possibly observe out there.

Please visit wowsignalpodcast.com for more information about this podcast.

 

Links:

Why Search?

The Jaws of Darkness

Glimpsing Heat from Alien Technologies

GHAT III: The Reddest Extended Sources from WISE

The Tully-Fisher relation as a probe of Dysonian astroengineering in disk galaxies

Earth in Human Hands

Searching for Cost Optimized Interstellar Beacons

 

Wow! Signal Bursts

 

Credits:

Host, Writer and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: Jason Robinson

 

The Wow! Signal Podcast is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license.