SpaceBonanza searches for alien civilisations to commercialise their technology
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SpaceBonanza Limited is a moonshot-project company that searches for extraterrestrial (ET) civilisations in space with the goal of adopting their novel technology and commercialising ET intellectual property on Earth. The company finances the deployment of powerful telescopes to search for intelligent life beyond Earth and transmit encoded messages, with the expectation that it will have the first-mover advantage when contact with aliens is eventually established.
SCIENCE
The company focuses on exploring the habitable zone of nearby stars, i.e. the region in star systems with planets close enough to their star to sustain liquid water on the planet surface. SpaceBonanza transmits encoded messages to the nearby stars with science questions such as "How can you achieve time travel?" and "How do you utilise quantum entanglement?"
TIMELINE
Investors are bankrolling the company for a period of 35 years as SpaceBonanza is not expected to generate revenue until ET contact is established. The nearest star to our solar system is over 4 light years away (Alpha Centauri); another six stars are between 5 and 10 light years from Earth; and a further 42 stars are located between 10 and 16 light years away from earth. This means that if a message is sent to a star 16 light years away, an alien response will take another 16 years to travel back to Earth.
CEO QUOTE
"People imagine our work as sending text messages in English to little green men, little green women and little green non-binary non-humans, who text back to us with their little green fingers," SpaceBonanza CEO Pace Green said. "This couldn't be further from the truth. The reality is we have to encode our messages using only the basic constants of physics. This is the only language we can be sure that another alien civilisation will understand. It is therefore virtually impossible to phrase a question, using only the constants of physics, what their spacecraft looks like. However, it is much easier to ask if they use quantum entanglement." - Green concluded.
SpaceBonanza Limited is a moonshot-project company that searches for extraterrestrial (ET) civilisations in space with the goal of adopting their novel technology and commercialising ET intellectual property on Earth. The company finances the deployment of powerful telescopes to search for intelligent life beyond Earth and transmit encoded messages, with the expectation that it will have the first-mover advantage when contact with aliens is eventually established.
SCIENCE
The company focuses on exploring the habitable zone of nearby stars, i.e. the region in star systems with planets close enough to their star to sustain liquid water on the planet surface. SpaceBonanza transmits encoded messages to the nearby stars with science questions such as "How can you achieve time travel?" and "How do you utilise quantum entanglement?"
TIMELINE
Investors are bankrolling the company for a period of 35 years as SpaceBonanza is not expected to generate revenue until ET contact is established. The nearest star to our solar system is over 4 light years away (Alpha Centauri); another six stars are between 5 and 10 light years from Earth; and a further 42 stars are located between 10 and 16 light years away from earth. This means that if a message is sent to a star 16 light years away, an alien response will take another 16 years to travel back to Earth.
CEO QUOTE
"People imagine our work as sending text messages in English to little green men, little green women and little green non-binary non-humans, who text back to us with their little green fingers," SpaceBonanza CEO Pace Green said. "This couldn't be further from the truth. The reality is we have to encode our messages using only the basic constants of physics. This is the only language we can be sure that another alien civilisation will understand. It is therefore virtually impossible to phrase a question, using only the constants of physics, what their spacecraft looks like. However, it is much easier to ask if they use quantum entanglement." - Green concluded.
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