Here is a bit more information on this new type of search method:
From ESO-Cast. Giant telescopes are being used to search for the subtle signs of magnetic fields in other stars and even to map out the star spots on their surfaces. This information is beginning to reveal how and why so many stars, including our own Sun, are magnetic, and what the implications might be for life on Earth and elsewhere in the Universe. Astronomers are beginning to use signs of magnetic fields generated by stars to assess the habitability of planets that orbit them.
Do you think this will work? It is definitely different. Feel free to comment with your thoughts and if this could be viable. And this is an exciting area as SETI just got a $100 million dollar new budget to work with.
thanks to Anders Sandberg for the pic
How about sustaining life here before venturing elsewhere. And we don’t even know what’s on the ocean floor… Humans are just plum fucking dumb.
Saddly if we learn how to go ellsewere proficiently that wont be a concept used….bc if it gets to bad we go elsewhere repeat
Possible what we did to mars before we came to earth lol