[Interview] How Black Widow Pulsars Can Be A Sign of Star-Eating Aliens

Black Widow pulsars consume their partners. But if there were advanced alien species, it could be a perfect way to produce energy and move the stars around. They could also use pulsars as a global galactic navigation system. How exactly could they achieve it? Finding out in this interview. 🦄 Get the extra part for free here: patreon.com/universetoday 🟣 Guest: Dr. Clément Vidal https://www.clemvidal.com/ 📜 The Spider Stellar Engine: a Fully Steerable Extraterrestrial Design? https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05038 📜 Pulsar Positioning System: A quest for evidence of extraterrestrial engineering https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03316 00:00 Intro 01:33 Stellarvore 07:48 Moving stars around 17:57 Technosignatures 25:17 Pulsar galactic navigation system 29:44 Messaging system 39:43 Noosphere 43:48 Bonus part 44:08 Current obsessions 46:43 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Bebhbe0DOrU 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast