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Martin J. Rees

Martin J. Rees Lord of Ludlow Astronomer Royal of the UK: Since 1995 Emeritus Professor of Cosmology & Astrophysics: University of Cambridge Chair of Advisory Group: Breakthrough Listen Project Author: Our Cosmic Habitat�
How will humanity first discover ET Life? Best guess: biosignatures for life in general, but technosignatures for intelligent life (although low probability) About biosignatures: [Microbes] could be freeze-dried on the Red Planet, [or] it cold be something under the ice of Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. About technosignatures: If the emergence of intelligence on another world had followed the similar evolution to what has happened here, then were we to detect ET, we would be most unlikely to catch it in the brief sliver of time when it is still organic. For our Earth, between four and a half billion years before technology emerged, [life�s] been around for a few millennia, maybe one more millennium, it�ll be superseded by electronic intelligence which will then go on for billions of years. So that means that it�s far more likely if we detected something artificial, it would be not an organic civilization but something which was created by a long dead organic civilization.