Scientists may only need one single-pixel photo to to reveal 'waste heat' from another planet. engineering
Using data from the Webb telescope, scientists on Earth might only require a single-pixel image of a faraway alien world to glean enough information to strongly suggest the presence of biological life in the cosmos. Detecting more complex life — perhaps intelligent, like ours — could be more complicated. But the best way to guess how we'd find it is by examining how we show up on Earth, but from a point-of-view of space.
It's ironic that the damage done to our biosphere by many of these compounds could be the way alien civilizations on distant worlds spot us with their telescope — but it also means we can do the same to them, provided we have a telescope with enough power.And that's exactly what Webb can do.
Depending on the distance between Webb and an alien world with CFCs or some other harmful chemical compound in its atmosphere, humans might be forced to speculate aboutAfter all, there's no guarantee that our civilization will survive its current suite of social and ecological antagonisms.
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