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“Just as our attempts to find extraterrestrials are becoming more advanced…humans are creating more technology-produced noise than ever before, wrote. Cellphones, Wi-Fi and GPS all rely on radio waves, so daily human interactions are pushing scientists further and further away from discovering life beyond our planet. Recently, the Breakthrough Listen project, a $100 million research program, realized the signal they suspected to be evidence of alien life, dubbed BLC1, was nterference from their own radio technology.

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