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It might be that some massive network of communications, or some shield against asteroidal impact, or some huge astroengineering project that we can't even begin to conceive of, could generate signals at radio or optical frequencies that a determined program of searching might detect.
Jill Tarter's call to join the SETI search Jill Tarter 2009
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See, when liberals take over the schools and make everyone read Rigoberta Menchu and the Vagina Monologues, basic astroengineering goes out the window!
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009
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It might be that some massive network of communications, or some shield against asteroidal impact, or some huge astroengineering project that we can't even begin to conceive of, could generate signals at radio or optical frequencies that a determined program of searching might detect.
Jill Tarter's call to join the SETI search Jill Tarter 2009
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It might be that some massive network of communications, or some shield against asteroidal impact, or some huge astroengineering project that we can't even begin to conceive of, could generate signals at radio or optical frequencies that a determined program of searching might detect.
Jill Tarter's call to join the SETI search Jill Tarter 2009
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Although they had developed wormholes and sent exploration ships ranging across the galaxy, they had only ever settled a dozen or so nearby star systems, none of which had massive astroengineering facilities.
The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007
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Like generations of farm boys behind him, Bill had fled the open space for cubicles: first to college, then to graduate school, and ultimately into astroengineering where, to his amazement, he'd been selected to help crew humanity's first interstellar spaceship.
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The System's mother lode of heavy metals had been whittled away through millennia of astroengineering.
The Ghost from the Grand Banks Clarke, Arthur C. 1990
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The System's mother lode of heavy metals had been whittled away through millennia of astroengineering.
The Ghost from the Grand Banks Clarke, Arthur C. 1990
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It's not even Optimus: The concept sounds downright wacky, but natural processes of pressure and bizarre circumstances leading to natural-born nuclear reactions are not Here is a nice article on searching for evidence of alien astroengineering.
MetaFilter Projects 2009
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It's not even Optimus: The concept sounds downright wacky, but natural processes of pressure and bizarre circumstances leading to natural-born nuclear reactions are not Here is a nice article on searching for evidence of alien astroengineering.
MetaFilter Projects 2009
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