Héctor Socas, astrofísico: “Si una civilización más avanzada nos contactase deberían tener ellos más miedo que nosotros”
IA, extraterrestres, crisis climática, el futuro del trabajo o la gobernanza global. Este divulgador aborda desde la ciencia una pregunta mucho más amplia: ¿qué tipo de civilización queremos ser?
Héctor Socas, a 53-year-old astrophysicist, currently resides in Tenerife. He is an investigator at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) and the director of the Telescopio Solar Europeo Foundation. Socas is currently involved in an international consortium, AtLAST, aiming to construct a large radiotelescope in Chile.
His research primarily focuses on solar physics, where he strives to predict solar storms, which could have potentially catastrophic consequences for satellites, GPS systems, and electronic devices. He aims to achieve this prediction with a few days' warning, much like how meteorologists forecast weather on Earth. Additionally, Socas dedicates his time to "sol and planetary archaeology," collaborating with his colleague Ignacio Trujillo from the IAC to search for a hypothetical ninth planet, known as Planet Nine.
The prospect of discovering Planet Nine would provide valuable insight into the formation of our solar system.
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