China's telescope may have detected alien life 🔭

Plus: GM and Lockheed Martin will develop electric moon rovers Jun 16, 2022 [Blueprint]( The most powerful ground-based radio telescope may have discovered signs of an extraterrestrial civilization in space via electromagnetic radiation. Bafflingly, the report of the “alien signal” was deleted shortly after publication, which could lead some to unwarranted conclusions. So let’s not jump the shark — since all purportedly alien signals detected to date turned out to be produced by our own civilization, not another one. Thanks, radio pollution. Before we dive in and bask under the glory of fresh science stories, watch today’s video to learn how NASA’s New Horizons mission revealed the breathtaking beauty of Pluto. Good morning. I’m Derya, an editor at IE. This is The Blueprint. Let’s roll. [Play]VIDEO OF THE DAY [How NASA's New Horizons mission revealed the breathtaking beauty of Pluto]( [Pluto.]( Behold: Pluto is covered with churning ice "cells". [Must Read]MUST READ [First signs of alien life? China's FAST telescope may have detected something]( [China's FAST telescope.]( In June of 2020, we reported how China would soon transfer much of the processing power of its 1,640-ft (500-m) Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) to hunt for an alien signal. And now it seems the telescope may have found... something. Suspicious? A report by China’s state-backed Science and Technology Daily, which was recently deleted, [stated that the giant Sky Eye telescope]( may have picked up signs of an alien civilization. No one knows why the report was deleted, but it was online long enough for other news sources to pick it up. → Apparently, the team observed two sets of suspicious signals in 2020 while examining data collected in 2019 and found another suspicious signal in 2022 data acquired from exoplanets. However, the team also stated that, [in the search for alien intelligence]( the first attempts were very unlikely to produce tangible results. 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