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Harvard-led team to search cosmos for extraterrestrial space tech and UFOs - C C - Jul 27, 2021
https://www.livescience.com/galileo-project-hunts-alien-tech.html
INTRO: Are there intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations capable of building technologies that can travel between the stars? An international research project is poised to find out.
The Galileo Project, helmed by a multi-institutional team of scientists led by Avi Loeb, a professor of science in the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University, will seek and investigate evidence that could represent defunct or still-active "extraterrestrial technological civilizations," or ETCs, project representatives said in a statement released on Monday (July 26).
The project will analyze data from astronomical surveys and telescope observations, and design new algorithms using artificial intelligence (AI), in order to identify potential interstellar travelers, alien-built satellites and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), according to the statement.
"Science should not reject potential extraterrestrial explanations because of social stigma or cultural preferences that are not conducive to the scientific method of unbiased, empirical inquiry," Loeb said in the statement. "We now must 'dare to look through new telescopes,' both literally and figuratively..." (MORE)
RE: Harvard-led team to search cosmos for extraterrestrial space tech and UFOs - Magical Realist - Jul 27, 2021
One more begrudged inch forward in the trend towards science and the intelligensia taking ET's seriously.
RE: Harvard-led team to search cosmos for extraterrestrial space tech and UFOs - C C - Jul 30, 2021
Is the truth out there? How the Harvard-based Galileo Project will search the skies for alien technology.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/is-the-truth-out-there/