{"id":3926414,"date":"2026-06-10T13:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/where-not-to-look-in-the-search-for-et\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:03:30","slug":"where-not-to-look-in-the-search-for-et","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/where-not-to-look-in-the-search-for-et\/","title":{"rendered":"Where not to look in the search for ET"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>There&#8217;s a question at the heart of SETI that doesn&#8217;t get nearly enough attention. It isn&#8217;t whether aliens exist, and it isn&#8217;t whether we have the technology to detect them. It&#8217;s a far more practical problem: With a billion stars in our galaxy and finite telescope time, how do you decide which ones to actually listen to?<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-where-not-to-look-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a question at the heart of SETI that doesn&#8217;t get nearly enough attention. It isn&#8217;t whether aliens exist, and it isn&#8217;t whether we have the technology to detect them. It&#8217;s a far more practical problem: With a billion stars in our galaxy and finite telescope time, how do you decide which ones to actually [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}