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Janus Observatory

The research behind the story.

Janus Observatory is built on Project Janus, a series of studies imagining how human civilization might look in 1,000 years—and what it would look like from far away.

The studies

  1. Scenario Modeling, Worldbuilding, and Overview of Remotely Detectable TechnosignaturesThe ten futures themselves: how each civilization works, how large it grows and the marks it leaves.Haqq-Misra and colleagues · CC BY 4.0 ↗
  2. Luminosity and Mass as Limits to GrowthHow far energy use and growth can go before they run into physical limits.Haqq-Misra and colleagues · CC BY 4.0 ↗
  3. Strategies for Observing Technosignatures on Terrestrial ExoplanetsWhat five future instruments could detect in each future, seen from another star.Haqq-Misra and colleagues · CC BY 4.0 ↗
  4. Governance and Freedom in SpaceHow power and freedom might work as civilization spreads into space.Haqq-Misra and colleagues · CC BY-ND 4.0 ↗
  5. Civilization Collapse-Recovery Dynamics and DetectabilityHow often each future collapses, how it recovers, and what that means for being seen.Blanco and colleagues · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Our rebuild of the collapse model.

To explore how the futures collapse and recover, we rebuilt the collapse study’s model from the equations in the paper and checked it against every number the paper states in its text. It’s our own version, not the authors’ code, and it never replaces their results.

See how the rebuild compares