{"id":7404,"date":"2016-04-13T00:03:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T07:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2016-04-13T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T18:58:01","slug":"cloaking-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/13\/cloaking-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloaking Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Scientists have a wild idea for hiding us from evil aliens<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0Rachel Feltman<\/a><\/p>\n

\"(giphy)\"(giphy)<\/em><\/p>\n

Most of the time when we talk about silly scientific papers related to alien life, we’re talking about crazy ideas for how to\u00a0find<\/em>\u00a0aliens. But\u00a0a new study<\/a>\u00a0in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society proposes a way of\u00a0hiding<\/em>from aliens. Humans are so fickle.<\/p>\n

A lot of our search for Earth-like planets (and, by extension, for life as we know it) hinges on transiting planets. These are planets that pass in front of their host star in such a way that the transit is visible from our perspective. The movement of the planet in front of the host star\u00a0makes the light from that star dim or flicker<\/a>, and we can use that to determine all sorts of things about distant worlds \u2014\u00a0including how suitable they may be for life.<\/p>\n

[Study: Maybe we can\u2019t find aliens because they\u2019ve all died already<\/a>]\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Some scientists have suggested that we should hope that Earth is a transiting planet from the perspective of some other world that hosts intelligent life. In other words, our best shot at finding aliens might be\u00a0hoping that they’re using exactly the same methods of planetary detection that we are<\/a>, and that they can see the passage of Earth in front of the sun with their telescopes. If we made a lot of noise in the direction of those theoretical planets, we might get their attention faster.<\/p>\n

Or we could point lasers at them instead.<\/p>\n

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