The starship Enterprise from Star Trek
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We may be able to spot enormous alien spacecraft by the gravitational waves they would create. Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time formed when a massive object moves around, so if there are any extraterrestrials driving gigantic spacecraft around our galaxy, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US could potentially detect them.
Gianni Martire at Applied Physics, a research institute in New York, and his colleagues calculated how large such a craft would have to be, and how fast it would have …
