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b'Is humanity the first technological species to exist in this solar system (or even on this planet?) The quick and easy answer is yes, but maybe we don\\u2019t know that for sure.\\n\\nPrior Indigenous Technological Species\\n\\nBut if a prior technological, perhaps spacefaring, species ever arose in the\\n\\nSolar System, it might have produced artifacts or other technosignatures that\\n\\nhave survived to present day, meaning Solar System artifact SETI provides a\\n\\npotential path to resolving astrobiology\\u2019s question.\\n\\n\\n\\nLots of great tidbits in this paper:\\n\\nCarl Sagan once toyed with the idea that the moons of Mars might be artificial objects.\\n\\nA current astronomer suggests we should be looking for \\u201ccity lights\\u201d on Kuiper Belt objects\\n\\nThis is in keeping with the show we did a while back about there potentially being many more planets in the solar system and we just haven\\u2019t discovered them yet. One of them may be home to a current (not extinct) technological civilization.\\n\\nBut if we can\\u2019t rule this out, what CAN we rule out?\\xa0\\n\\nPrior civilization on Earth? No\\n\\nAliens living among us now? No\\n\\nSimulation hypothesis / Matrix / Boltzmann brains? No\\n\\nOccam\\u2019s Razor says we shouldn\\u2019t buy any of this.\\xa0\\n\\nBut maybe skepticism isn\\u2019t the whole answer?\\n\\n\\n\\nIs there a benefit to be gained in exploring these unlikely scenarios?\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\nWT 438-751\\n\\nEternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\\n\\nImage from Pixabay.com'