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Welcome back to part two of my conversation with Lee Billings, author of Five Billion

Years of Solitude, The Search for Life Among the Stars.

We're on the verge of being able to actually analyze the contents of the atmospheres of

some of these rocky exoplanets, which could tell us, not that they're inhabited or that

there's a technological civilization, but it would be some strong circumstantial evidence

that there is some kind of at least industrial processes going on.

Yeah, that's feasible.

That's feasible.

I will say, though, that, you know, the best candidate for that that people like to talk about is chloroflorocarbons, right?

CFCs, because, again, we're dealing with just our own little sample and what we've experienced in the past.

If the aliens are using hairspray, we're going to know.

Well, I'd like to say so, but those signals are really, really weak. Anything that we can imagine, any kind of thing that we can countenance. I mean, in theory, sure, you could have an entire civilization devoted to hairspray, right? And then they're just all, that's their religion, is they just spray the stuff into the air, and that's all they do. do and every Sunday everyone does it in mass by the billions or trillions that kind of scenario you could

in theory see something building up that we could see with instruments that we're contemplating now

but something like what we did to our planet and what caused the ozone hole that's kind of off the

table for us to see but again you know not everything's like us out there, right?

And how similar things are going to be to us is a very big question. We don't really know the answer to it.

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