“……Sólo FAST - como se llama este masivo ‘wok’ situado en Guizhou……opera en las bandas adecuadas y cuenta con la potencia y sensibilidad……alertar sobre un posible futuro contacto……”(西班牙文)
“……Only FAST - as this massive 'wok' located in Guizhou……operates on the right bands and has the power and sensitivity……alert to possible future contact……”(英譯)
“……As a result, it is shown that FAST can detect as galactic as well as extragalactic self-replicating probes with high precision……Finally, one can conclude that detection of flatness and independence of the spectral power on radio frequencies and high angular resolution of the instruments of FAST in the range 70MHz-3GHz seems to be very prospective.”
根據Zaza Osmanov的推論,「天眼」在特定條件下,可以偵測到卡爾達肖夫指數等於2或3的馮紐曼探測器(Kardashev’s Type-II and Type-III von-Neumann probes)。終其行文,志在證明「天眼」具備這種偵測能力,卻沒有出現「只有/惟有/唯一」這類推論或結論。《EC》怎可能從中導出Sólo FAST這個片語?
還有一個可能:Zaza Osmanov曾經在其他文章提及Sólo FAST這個推論或結論。有趣的是,另一篇Zaza Osmanov(聯同V.I. Berezhiani)2021年9月在arXiv.org發表的文章《Prospects of SETI by small size optical telescopes》(22),有這樣的總結:
“……We also considered the possibility of detection of extraterrestrial von Neumann probes and it has been found that by using an a small size optical telescope the detection of the mentioned objects is quite realistic on very large distances: tens or hundreds of parsecs and even kilo parsecs for Type-2.x civilizations and from megaparsecs to hundreds of megaparsecs for Type-3.x civilizations……”
原來光學望遠鏡在特定條件下,都可以偵測到Kardashev’s Type-II and Type-III von-Neumann probes,即是「屈」所指的「外星艦隊」。兩文並列,如何由此引申出只有中國「天眼」可以「提前警告外星艦隊入侵」?《EC》明顯查證不足。
另一方面,這類自我複製星際探測器(extragalactic self-replicating probes)是否可草率地視為、等同「外星飛船」;甚至「外星艦隊」?查核另一篇Zaza Osmanov 2019年9月在arXiv.org發表的文章《On the interstellar Von Neumann micro self-reproducing probes》(23),有這樣的描述及總結:
“……Therefore, type-II extraterrestrials would prefer to use micro robots than large-scale macro probes……We have analysed efficiency of micro scale Von-Neumann probes versus macro robots and we found that the former might efficiently self-reproduce in the interstellar media……”
另一方面,大眾對尋找、發現地外/外星生命這類行動,一向抱有極大好奇,故此所有前沿的天文儀器,都有人希望它能夠有所貢獻。由航行者1至2號(24)、Very Large Array(25),到哈勃望遠鏡(26)及韋伯望遠鏡(27),都有「西方傳媒」撰文寄予厚望。故此,《EC》的報導,以致Zaza Osmanov的分析,是一般正常寄望,但「屈」竟然煞有介事的沾沾自喜,覺得終於要靠賴中國人拯救地球了……
(19) 《CSIRO technology to be at the heart of the world's largest radio telescope in China》(The Sydney Morning Herald,5/5/2016) https://www.smh.com.au/technology/csiro-technology-to-be-at-the-heart-of-the-worlds-largest-radio-telescope-in-china-20160505-gomt90.html
(22) 《Prospects of SETI by small size optical telescopes》 (Osmanov Z.N. & V.I. Berezhiani) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.11005.pdf
(23) 《On the interstellar Von Neumann micro self-reproducing probes》 (Osmanov Z.N.) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.05078.pdf
(24) 《A 40-Year Old Voyager Spacecraft Can Guide Aliens to Earth》(Futurism,18/8/2017) https://futurism.com/a-40-year-old-voyager-spacecraft-can-guide-aliens-to-earth
(25) 《The Very Large Array will search for evidence of extraterrestrial life》(Digitaltrends,15/2/2020) https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/very-large-array-seti/
(26) 《Will the 'Super Hubble' Space Telescope Find Alien Life?》(Space,30/9/2015) https://www.space.com/30694-will-super-hubble-telescope-detect-alien-life.html
(27) 《Could This New Telescope Help Us Find the Aliens?》 (The SETI Institute,6/1/2022) https://www.seti.org/could-new-telescope-help-us-find-aliens
(28) 《Stephen Hawking's Most Provocative Moments, From Evil Aliens to Black Hole Wagers》(National Geographic,2/5/2018) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/stephen-hawking-controversial-physics-black-holes-bets-science