LonCon Schedule for Br Guy

[brotherguy]

While waiting for my Skype session to Detcon I to start, I figured I would post this:

The Fermi Paradox in Light of the Kepler Mission

Thursday 19:00 - 20:00, Capital Suite 15 (ExCeL)

The Kepler Mission has been hugely successful in searching for exoplanets. It's results have been used as the basis of claims that Earthlike planets lie in the

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[wcg]

...why have we seen no sign of intelligent life spreading from star to star?

What would you consider a sign of intelligent life spreading from star to star? Detection of a communication signal? A flare from a Bussard ramscoop?

I ask because I'm not at all sure we know what such a sign would look like.

[neowolf2]

Most likely we'd see them after they had spread around a lot (the time spent spreading is small compared to the age of the universe). So, look for infrared from the waste heat emission from their Kardashev Type III civilizations.

Recently some folks used WISE data to put bounds on the occurrence of such civilizations.

http://astro.fnal.gov/events/Seminars/AbstractLinks/Wright%20JUNE%2016%202014%20abstract.html

http://astro.fnal.gov/events/Seminars/Slides/JWright_61614.pdf

[wcg]

Thanks. So the real hunt is for IR bright extra-galactic sources.

[desperance]

Heh. Say hullo to Juliet for me...