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To find a technical civilization however, requires more than bio-markers, we need "technomarkers" or "technosignatures" that reveal the presence of any technology that an exoplanet might possess. One possibility is a "Clarke Exobelt", a region in space around planets called the "Clarke Belt," in honour of Arthur C. Clarke, who in 1945, published an article about the use of geostationary orbits for telecommunications. In this belt are geostationary satellites used for a large number of practical applications.
Please join Tony Darnell and Christian Ready as they discuss this idea with Hector Socas-Navarro an astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and author of a paper "Possible Photometric Signatures of Moderately Advanced Civilizations: The Clarke Exobelt"
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