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Self-Replicating Probes Could be Operating Right now in the Solar System. Here's How We Could Look for Them


A new study proposes how we could look for signs of self-replicating (Von Neumann) probes that would prove that the Solar System has been explored by an advanced extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI).

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