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NATURE|Vol 437|29 September 2005
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Feeling rejected
World beater.
Alastair Reynolds
Report on the paper тАЬAnalysis of the grav-
itational signals from a newly discovered
Kardashev II civilization in the Sombrero
Galaxy: Part 1 by Whimbrel et al. тАЭ, sub-
mitted to the Journal of Xenoastronomical
Studies .
The authors present an analysis of gravita-
tional signals of intelligent origin arising
in the Sombrero Galaxy, detected in
publicly available archival data from the
System-Wide Imaging Network for Exo-
astronomy (SWINE). The transmitting
culture, which has not been the subject of
an earlier paper, is shown to be a
type II civilization on the Karda-
shev scheme, by which it is under-
stood that they have the means to
tap the entire energy output of
their star. This classification is
made partly on the basis of the
strength of the SWINE signal
(which in itself implies a basic
competence in stellar husbandry)
and partly on the basis of the cul-
tural information embedded in the
datathemselves. This assessmentis
probably correct, but given the
likelihoodthatbothtypeI and type
III civilizations may occasionally
emulate type II civilizations for their own
purposes (see, for instance, Chukar, Fran-
colin and Dickcissel, 2051), a word of cau-
tionmight well havebeen in order.
The species is shown to have originated
on a rocky terrestrial planet about the size
of Mars, and to have followed an evolu-
tionary pathway that is well approximated