A new study has confirmed the idea that what has been called the “Great Silence of Extraterrestrials” is merely the byproduct of limited investigations.
“Bright and obvious radio beacons might be quite common in the sky, but we would not know it yet, because our search completeness to date is so low,” the authors of the new study wrote.
Humans have long searched for aliens in the skies above them and have been left deeply confused by what they perceive to be a direct lack of evidence of these beings. But new research suggests that not having found extraterrestrials is most likely down to the fact that humans haven’t even come close to exhausting all possibilities of investigation, as Space reported.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has so far failed to detect any signs of aliens in the heavens and the term, the “Great Silence,” was initially coined by physicist David Brin in 1983 in his paper, “Scientific Excuses For Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet.”
Penn State University graduate student Shubham Kanodia, who is the co-author of the new study on extraterrestrials, explained that the study’s goal was to try and analyze how far the search for aliens has come over the years, especially scrutinizing what needs to be done in the future.
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