Listening For The Pilots of 'Oumuamua
Breakthrough Listen Releases Initial Results and Data from Observations of ‘Oumuamua
“Breakthrough Listen – the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe – is reporting preliminary results and making initial data available from its observations of the “interstellar visitor” ‘Oumuamua. No evidence of artificial signals emanating from the object so far detected by the Green Bank Telescope, but monitoring and analysis continue. Initial data are available for public inspection in the Breakthrough Listen archive.”
Probably not a complete waste of time, but then Rama didn’t give off any signals either.
They probably watched the various news shows on the way inbound and decided they better play possum (run silent) while making a quick exit away from such a crazy and dangerous species.
Although any opinion of such an endeavor is simply that, I sincerely doubt that a species capable of interstellar travel would still be using radio waves as a communication format
I would have thought someone (maybe JAXA’s Akari?) would have taken a minute to see if there were areas of the object that were inexplicably warmer than other areas.