SCIENCE LAB SCATTER : ALIEN DEBRIS

'' E.T. Take Out The Trash.'' : Is there alien debris on the moon? Scientists plan to find out.

Imagine an alien civilization that runs on dazzling technologies far more advanced than our own.  Picture city-size starships, planet wide mines or swarms of solar panels that harvest technology directly from a star.

As these aliens go about their otherworldly business, the erosive forces of space wear down their infrastructure, loosening bits of debris that detach and drift into the cosmos.

If the civilization collapses, its remains degarde even more quickly. Clouds of particles might be unleashed into the galaxy, akin to microplastics in Earth's oceans, sprinkling worlds with the detritus of an extraterrestrial society.

Some of these particles, if they exist, may have even wafted through our solar system, perhaps settling on the surface of the moon, proposes a team of scientists focused on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, SETI.

In their study, in peer review for the International Journal of Astrobiology, they suggest that searching for these microscopic remnants of lunar soil could resolve one of humanity's great questions : Are we alone in the universe?

'' If any other technological civilization has ever existed in our galaxy, it's not an unreasonable hypothesis to think that particles of them are on the moon in some quantity,'' said Lewis Pinault, an affiliate scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif, and a researcher at Birkbeck College, University of London, who led the research.

This unique research and its publishing continues to Part [2]. !WOW! thanks Becky Ferreira.