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The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: From Smoke to Gardens express

Original: "Decolonizing technosignatures: Reimagining technosignatures through an Indigenist lens"
· Hilding R. Neilson
arXiv:2607.07592 · 2026-07-08 · CC BY 4.0 · 1 min · Instrumentation
Scientists suggest looking for green alien technologies, not industrial smog.
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Searching for aliens by pollution is like searching for colonizers. Intelligent civilizations may live in harmony with nature, leaving no dirty traces. This could answer the Fermi paradox.

🎯 The Fermi paradox (the silence of the Universe) might be explained by the fact that we were looking for smoke instead of a fresh breeze.

Scientists
Christian DopplerD. B. McLaughlinDidier QuelozMichel MayorR. A. RossiterDavid Charbonneau
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exoplanet spectroscopy transit method
Laws
Doppler effectKepler's third lawMaxwell's equationsPlanck's lawPlanck–Einstein relationWien's displacement law
Original: arXiv:2607.07592 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds