#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

6262.958 - 6287.002 Adam Frank

right which is what if it's a swarm you'd expect like the light to be like blinking in and out as these things pass in front of you know if you've got thousands of these much of the time they'll be blotting out the star sometimes they won't be right and so you're going to get an irregular sort of uh signal uh transit signal yeah one you wouldn't expect from a star that doesn't have anything exactly or just a planet right or a couple of planets there'd be so many of these that it would be like beep beep beep