detecting alien artificial satellite megaconstellations

[notFritzArgelander]

https://phys.org/news/2021-05-extraterr ... years.html

[turboscrew]

"The current plan is to put 12,000 communication satellites in low-Earth orbit, with the possibility of another 30,000 later."
Maybe I'll give up plans of trying AP...

[helicon]

This seems incredible and is bad news for all stargazers and I assume especially maddening to AP'ers.

[GCoyote]

Hmmm. Seems like yet another extrapolation from current human technology. Remember Percival Lowell thought illusory lines he saw on Mars were water carrying canals. It was a technology he could understand so he adopted a narrative to explain what he thought he saw in terms he was familiar with.

That said, anomalies in any part of the EM spectrum are the sort of thing we look for as a matter of course. There are always interesting things waiting to be discovered.