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<blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6852017" data-attributes="member: 13107"><p>What is done, though, will depend a lot on what in particular is seen.</p><p></p><p>I would think, since such a discovery is rather quite extraordinary, the first steps would be to verify what was initially seen, and to take all possible steps to make sure the discovery is real. The whole pipeline for incoming data would be examined to make sure no fraud was taking place, and the data, if found to be real, would be examined for any possible misinterpretation.</p><p></p><p>Following, I would expect a great deal of tension between doing additional investigation and perturbing the site to a minimal degree. I'm thinking of modern minimally invasive archeology techniques. We would want to not perturb a possibly very fragile site: Important details could be effaced, or the site could be contaminated. Perhaps the first step would be to back off from the site, with a long deliberation of how to proceed.</p><p></p><p>After a long deliberation, we would proceed very slowly and very cautiously -- continuing with the theme of minimally perturbing the site.</p><p></p><p>I imagine that after a long process, a new probe would be designed and sent. Given current technology, I can't see us sending people for a very long time. Ideally, new probes would be done as international cooperatives. That fits how things are done now. But I can't rule out countries going it alone for nationalistic reasons.</p><p></p><p>What kind of probe would be sent is an interesting question, but I'm not qualified to comment on it. Space technology is a field unto itself, and folks with degrees in that field will have to say what is realistic in terms of how much of a payload could be sent, what sort of power, propulsion, communications, memory and control systems, and sensors, would be advisable and possible within the engineering constraints.</p><p></p><p>This is all for a dusty ruin, which seems most likely as what would be discovered. If the discovery showed any signs of an advanced technological nature, I imagine what happens would be more as I envisioned in my original posts.</p><p></p><p>Thx!</p><p>TomB</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tomBitonti, post: 6852017, member: 13107"] What is done, though, will depend a lot on what in particular is seen. I would think, since such a discovery is rather quite extraordinary, the first steps would be to verify what was initially seen, and to take all possible steps to make sure the discovery is real. The whole pipeline for incoming data would be examined to make sure no fraud was taking place, and the data, if found to be real, would be examined for any possible misinterpretation. Following, I would expect a great deal of tension between doing additional investigation and perturbing the site to a minimal degree. I'm thinking of modern minimally invasive archeology techniques. We would want to not perturb a possibly very fragile site: Important details could be effaced, or the site could be contaminated. Perhaps the first step would be to back off from the site, with a long deliberation of how to proceed. After a long deliberation, we would proceed very slowly and very cautiously -- continuing with the theme of minimally perturbing the site. I imagine that after a long process, a new probe would be designed and sent. Given current technology, I can't see us sending people for a very long time. Ideally, new probes would be done as international cooperatives. That fits how things are done now. But I can't rule out countries going it alone for nationalistic reasons. What kind of probe would be sent is an interesting question, but I'm not qualified to comment on it. Space technology is a field unto itself, and folks with degrees in that field will have to say what is realistic in terms of how much of a payload could be sent, what sort of power, propulsion, communications, memory and control systems, and sensors, would be advisable and possible within the engineering constraints. This is all for a dusty ruin, which seems most likely as what would be discovered. If the discovery showed any signs of an advanced technological nature, I imagine what happens would be more as I envisioned in my original posts. Thx! TomB [/QUOTE]
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