Elon Musk bought Twitter and he’s driving it off a cliff. In the realm of adults, some billionaires are funnelling money into the MeerKAT radio telescope array. Scott Alan Johnston covers the windfall while outlining how and what they’re looking for in the sky. Be certain it’s not an extraterrestrial social media network. Even without lavish funding, “Signals of Interest” Turned Up In SETI Search Aided By Citizen Scientists. While Micah Hanks wasn’t hanging out at the Green Bank Telescope, it’s almost as if he was a reporter on the scene with his analysis of the preprint posted over at arXiv by Sofia Sheikh and her pals covering the innovative techniques poised to tease out alien signals from deep space. But if humanity can not go to the aliens, then maybe the aliens are coming here. Just not how we’d expect. Paul Glister talks panspermia and how some of the finest minds of science, and Avi Loeb, are discussing the topic of Life From Elsewhere coming to Earth and whether it’s a natural or artificial process. (CS)
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