Episode 16 ︱Delving into the Thermodynamics of Alien Technologies with Jason Wright

Blast off with Jason Wright, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State and director of the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center. We delve into the latest scientific methods in the search for technosignatures or evidence of extraterrestrial technologies.

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Coined by the astronomer Jill Tarter, a co-founder of the SETI Institute, technosignatures encompass communicative signals such as radio waves and laser emissions from other stars systems, alien artifacts like spacecraft or space megastructures in and beyond our solar system, and other detectable signs of technological life beyond Earth, like evidence of artificially induced environmental changes on other planets.

Listen in as we discuss the relevance of the Drake Equation and the Kardashev Scale in today’s search for ETIs, the significance of discerning Earth’s technosignatures, and the latest predictions for identifying an extraterrestrial technosignature within our lifetime!