{"id":786776,"date":"2024-08-02T17:47:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T22:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=786776"},"modified":"2024-08-02T17:47:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T22:47:54","slug":"nasa-scientists-on-why-we-might-not-spot-solar-panel-technosignatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=786776","title":{"rendered":"NASA Scientists on Why We Might Not Spot Solar Panel Technosignatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--[--><\/p>\n<p class=\"margin-0 padding-0\">The researchers also assume that a hypothetical extraterrestrial civilization would rely exclusively on solar energy. However, if other sources of energy are used, such as nuclear fusion, it would reduce the silicon technosignature, making the civilization even harder to detect. The study further assumes that the civilization\u2019s population stabilizes at some point. If this doesn\u2019t happen for whatever reason, perhaps they will be driven to expand ever-father into deep space. Finally, it\u2019s impossible to know if an advanced civilization may be using something we haven\u2019t imagined yet that requires immense amounts of power.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-research\/planetary-science\/astrobiology\/nasa-scientists-on-why-we-might-not-spot-solar-panel-technosignatures\/?rand=772114\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers also assume that a hypothetical extraterrestrial civilization would rely exclusively on solar energy. However, if other sources of energy are used, such as nuclear fusion, it would reduce&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":786777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/786777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}