Distant Ruins: How Scientists Hunt Space for Dead Alien Civilizations

Distant Ruins: How Scientists Hunt Space for Dead Alien Civilizations

Sep 12th 2013, 20:00, by Gizmodo

‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ says Ozymandias’s ruined statue in the desert of Shelley’s imagination. Shelley’s sonnet is often interpreted as a sober warning that human works are fleeting, but when I read it as a young boy it kindled a sense of adventure; it suggested a wonderfully mysterious past beneath my [...]