Three New Methods Used by SETI To Find Alien Intelligence

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about new SETI discoveries (or lack of discoveries) from the last few months
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#seti #aliens #extraterrestrialintelligence

0:00 SETI studies
1:10 What Breakthrough Listen did this year
1:40 BLIPS survey - nothing found
3:10 Detection of anomalous structures - nothing found
4:50 Strange transits but explained later
5:30 Extragalactic signals from Type II civilizations - nothing found
7:05 But this was still important

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[mandelbraught]

I'm just really happy that there are other kinds of searches and serious studies like these going on! For sooo long these kinds of studies were not funded and I feel like, basically, the search is only just starting in recent years. Anyway, as always, you present the studies fairly and keep expectations super real. You're the best Anton!!!!

[T.efpunkt]

I like to remind everyone how very limited SETI is in fact. We do not listen all the time, don't look in all directions and use only certain search techniques.

So far we aren't even done with searching a single drop from the entire ocean.

[Marioman]

Anton, I wish you well. My dad bought me and my son some of your shirts for Christmas and they're just awesome. I got into space as a kid 20 years ago and I can't wait to share that with my boy.

[wwtom]

I have no doubt that Life, Intelligent Life and even Civilizations have existed, exist now and will exist somewhere, somewhen in the universe. The problem is that distance = time and vice versa. So the likelihood of any civilizations being close enough at the same time to become aware of another much less actually communicate is Slim and None.

[laurachapple]

Honestly if we ever find aliens I expect Anton to be the one who tells me about it first.

[Duane_Day]

I always eagerly await your next video! Fortunately you produce a lot of content, and always great content. Everybody here would love to have a beer (other) with you and listen to you geek out on all things science and tech.

[lar]

Wonderful presentation as always ANTON, TY for your diligence and hards work👍👍👍

[peteduch]

Its diffecult enough finding intelligent life here

[hanging]

It may be like trying to find a 1/100th of a needle in a solar system sized haystack but even if we picked up some relic of a transmission from 2B years ago that’d still be a win imo.

The goal when searching for life isn’t to communicate with it anyway, it’s simply trying to prove its out there in any capacity.

[whynottalklikeapirat]

The 5 stages of alien intelligence research:
- denial.
- anger.
- bargaining.
- depression.
- acceptance.

[Gregg]

I believe that there is life out there, but a few decently good reasons why we haven’t heard from them. 1: we are the earlier life. 2: they communicate through quantum signals (if that’s even possible, sending data through entangled particles) or gravity or magnetism. 3: they started communicating when we did but are far away and the speed of light and radio and anything else takes time. 4: they died out already. It is likely that multicellular life could exist close to us on an undiscovered planet, but if so, it is not advanced, advanced a little later than we did, or simply isn’t there, being the most likely one. I do, however, think that in the future we could absolutely make contact with aliens, however the question being how fast can they travel, do they notice us, and do they have a genuinely good reason to come here?

[Chris.Davies]

Radio signals seem to be by far the most unlikely way we could ever detect the presence of another civiisation in the milky way.

[nowsc]

… the center of the Milky Way may have the highest concentration of stars, yes, but it also has the highest ungodly concentration of radiation!

[jimcurtis]

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 😉👍

[Tsotha]

I haven't had time for keeping tabs on SETI in specific and space exploration in general for a long while so I am very grateful for your channel being able to give me these concise and accessible updates about the newest information within the field Anton. Absolutely fascinating that SETI is becoming better at identifying "false alarms" from things like pulsars and mechanical glitches, and that they've started going through old telescope data for possible signatures.

[franciscopagan]

Anton: Intriguing topic. It is possible that the way of communicating is different from ours. Different or more advanced technology, different way of communicating. ⚡️

[Corteum]

SETI's approach to finding intelligent ET's is the equivalent of pointing a drinking straw up in the air in some random public space in the hopes of it catching some stray spittle from someone's mouth as they communicate... and defining that spittle as evidence of the existence of intelligent life. 🤣

[ProfessorJayTee]

Something like a primitive coming to a more modern area, seeing no smoke signals or semaphore flags, and conclusively concluding that if there were any people inside the buildings, they are not communicating with each other... so there likely aren't any people in that city.

[KGTiberius]

Far side of the moon needs SEVERAL telescopic stations AND a network system of communication satellites in lunar orbit. This needs to be a priority above (or in collaboration with) human exploration as the primary targeted goal.
ALSO, a solar system wide, fully integrated communications network (Jovian, Martian, and Terrain Lagrange points 3, 4, 5 of each). The science would be (Oxford definition) AWESOME. Deep space network (high speed), parallax observation satellites, and blissful silence of interference.
I can only wonder if we ever manage a solar polar orbit communications network. (I’d love to see the math and cost proposals. And targeted science benefit analysis). Imagine a continuous laser grid accurate LIGO and communications broadband array of all these instruments! A Fleet of Nancy Grace Roman, LISA, x-ray, and microwave observatories… potentially achieve frequency resolution on the order of microhertz (μHz) or even better. What would the resultant science net our understanding? Amazing. AI filters, data processing and auto-targeting…. Wow.

[Oblithian]

I still maintain that in order to properly search and attempt communication we should have communication buoys either on the outskirts of the system. Alternatively above and or below the Sun.

Think of a radio tower being atop a mountain. It needs to be in a place that is easy to target and with minimal interference. it also needs to move as little as possible.