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Ender16 t1_irpvdhl wrote

Reply to comment by LemurofDamger in Podcast: the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life is now looking for "technosignatures" like pollution by asbruckman

Greed?

How about, "we can assume that technological civilizations will have noticeable byproducts of producing technology"?

Sure there could be a non ambitious primative civilization out there. But A, they probably wouldn't have evolved intelligence if they weren't going to benefit from it and B, we couldn't detect them then.

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StarChild413 t1_irqmkn7 wrote

And also pollution doesn't mean pollution to the level we're doing it even if it were in the same form

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