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Moon Dust Could Hold Clues to Alien Technology, Scientist Claims
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In Short: A Ukrainian astronomer proposed decades ago that microscopic debris from alien spacecraft could accumulate on the Moon, potentially revealing signs of extraterrestrial technology.
The Moon has been quietly accumulating material from space for billions of years, much of it likely billions of years older than the Moon itself, according to Dr. Pinault. In the 1990s, Ukrainian astronomer Oleksiy Arkhipov proposed that microscopic debris from alien spacecraft, probes, or industrial activity could drift across interstellar space and accumulate on stable, ancient surfaces like the Moon.
Scientists have found that sufficiently tough, refractory particles could travel thousands of light-years over hundreds of millions to billions of years, occasionally arriving at the Earth-Moon system slowly enough to survive impact rather than vaporize, thanks to solar radiation pressure and the Sun’s magnetic ‘bubble,’ the heliosphere.
This is a novel addition to the search methodologies applied to seeking evidence of technology as a proxy for life and intelligence beyond our Solar System, and we are excited at the prospect of bringing this to fruition, according to Lewis J.
Meanwhile, OpenAI's chief scientist has issued a blunt warning that artificial intelligence is starting to beat humans at tasks once thought safely human, telling the public on September 6 that 'no one is prepared' for how fast the technology is advancing.
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- Jakub Pachocki, who leads research at the company behind ChatGPT, laid out the warning in an essay titled 'An Alien Mind', posted on OpenAI's own website.
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- Ibtimeslink