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[Interview] How Black Widow Pulsars Can Be A Sign of Star-Eating Aliens

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Black Widow pulsars consume their partners. But if there were advanced alien species, it could be a perfect way to produce energy and move the stars around. They could also use pulsars as a global galactic navigation system. How exactly could they achieve it? Finding out in this interview.

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🟣 Guest: Dr. Clément Vidal

https://www.clemvidal.com/

📜 The Spider Stellar Engine: a Fully Steerable Extraterrestrial Design?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05038

📜 Pulsar Positioning System: A quest for evidence of extraterrestrial engineering

https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03316

  • 00:00 Intro
  • 01:33 Stellarvore
  • 07:48 Moving stars around
  • 17:57 Technosignatures
  • 25:17 Pulsar galactic navigation system
  • 29:44 Messaging system
  • 39:43 Noosphere
  • 43:48 Bonus part
  • 44:08 Current obsessions
  • 46:43 Final thoughts

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