Humanity constructed the first nuclear reactor eighty years ago. Yet, there was no immediate evidence back then that the first terrestrial reactor attracted attention from extraterrestrial civilizations. This is understandable. Nature manufactures nuclear reactors of much greater scales in the form of stars, and so our accomplishment was not particularly profound on the cosmic scale. Ditto if we will be successful at developing primitive forms of life in our laboratories. Nature fulfilled that challenge quickly on early Earth, based on random chemical processes. Nothing to brag about in our cosmic neighborhood.
But what about the creation of a sentient artificial intelligence (AI) system? Could that raise interest from extraterrestrial analogs based on their kinship to terrestrial relatives? The reason I bring this up is because unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) were discussed by Congress and NASA last month as new objects in our sky whose nature is unclear.
To read more, click here.