SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
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SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 18, 202645 min
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In 1960 physicist Freeman Dyson suggested that in the hunt for alien life, we should search for evidence of massive engineering projects that encapsulate stars with solar arrays to harness their energy. Could we humans ever make one ourselves? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Okay, I'm back with a neat and rollicking look at some sci-fi theories, in the truest sense of the word sci-fi, about what lines of progress any intelligent civilization should follow. And this concept leads pretty much inevitably to things like building space probes and

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harnessing the energy of stars, all of which should leave some telltale trace of a civilization already far more advanced than ours. What happens after that is another story. Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from HowStuffWorks.com.

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Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Jerry's over there with their foot on the button. And that means this is stuff we should know.

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