SETI bioastro: Maybe we are surrounded

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Here is an article by G. Matloff that is quite similar to the previous one
on searching for artificial KBOs.

http://www.nidsci.org/essaycomp/gmatloff.html

Relevant quote:

"If starships have crossed to our solar system within past eons (perhaps
accelerated by solar sails and decelerated by a combination of magnetic
reflection of interstellar ions and solar sails), they may have created a
myriad of artificial worldlets from asteroidal and cometary material. We may
live within a "Dyson Sphere" (53) of millions of space habitats, each
masquerading as a small comet nucleus or asteroid.

"In the absence of directed radio transmissions from the extraterrestrials
to the Earth, detection will be challenging, but not impossible. One method
of detection might be a search for excess infrared emissions from asteroidal
objects (5)."

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