Planet Hunting Telescopes And Pioneers Messages To Extraterrestrials

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g ABODES - Two planet-hunting telescopes - CoRoT and Kepler - are keeping astronomers hard at work cataloging far-distant planets that orbit other stars in our galaxy. The search for distant planets is essential for astrobiologists who are hunting for habitable, Earth-like worlds beyond our solar system. See article.

g MESSAGE - What do the Pioneer plaques that carry messages to extraterrestrials look like and say? See article.

g IMAGINING - Book alert: "Extraterrestrials, Where Are They?".

by Ben Zuckerman and Michael H. Hart (ed.) offers a critical analysis by leading experts in a range of sciences, of the plausibility that other intelligent life forms do exists. Exploration of the solar system, and observations with telescopes that probe deep space, have come up empty-handed in searches for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Many experts in the fields of astronomy, biology, chemistry and physics now argue that the evidence points to the conclusion that technological civilizations are rare. After 10 billion years and among hundreds of billions of stars, we may well possess the most advanced brains in the Milky Way. This second edition elucidates many new aspects of research on extraterrestrial intelligence life, specifically biological considerations of the question.

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Communication Challenges With Alien Worlds

DR. DAVID MESSERSCHMITT, author of five text books used in communication theory, was a recent lecture guest at the SETI Institute. In this talk, Dr. Messerschmitt will address end-to-end communication system design emphasizing noise, dispersion, and interference, deferring scattering to future work.

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has sought radio beacons devoid of information content. It seems likely, however, that a civilization transmitting a radio signal intended for our detection will also be motivated to embed information within the signal, especially in view of the large speed-of-light latencies. Successful exchange of information by radio with intelligent civilizations in distant solar systems requires an understanding of the end-to-end communication system design, including resources available to transmitter and receiver and properties of radio propagation in the interstellar medium.

Although interstellar space is nearly an ideal vacuum, it contains sufficient low- density plasma to profoundly affect radio transmission over interstellar distances. The primary impairments are attenuation, thermal noise, plasma dispersion, scattering, and interference in the vicinity of the receiver. The most difficult technical challenge is initial discovery of a signal, and the primary obstacles are the infeasibility of coordination between transmitter and receiver and related "needle in a haystack" issues.

White House No Contact With Aliens But Were Looking

By Dan Merica CNN.com

The White House position on extraterrestrials is now clear: aliens haven't contacted Earth, but that doesn't mean the U.S. government isn't looking for them.

"The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race," wrote Phil Larson of the White House Office of Science ">

The response went on to say that even though there is no proof that life exists outside Earth, "that doesn't mean the subject of life outside our planet isn't being discussed or explored," he said.The petitions were submitted through "We the People," a White House initiative that promises a White House response to any petition that can garner 5,000 signatures in 30 days.This response by the White House satisfies the demands of two petitions, one of which garnered over 12,000 signatures.That petition called on the White House to "formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race."

"Hundreds of military and government agency witnesses have come forward with testimony confirming this extraterrestrial presence," stated the petition. "Opinion polls now indicate more than 50% of the American people believe there is an extraterrestrial presence and more than 80% believe the government is not telling the truth about this phenomenon.

The people have a right to know. The people can handle the truth."According to the White House, however, "there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye."But Larson indicated that a host of government agencies are working "toward the goal of understanding if life can or does exist off Earth," including the Mars Science Laboratory, SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Kepler, the NASA spacecraft.

And even though the White House was clear that there is no credible evidence that aliens have contacted earth, Larson did point out that the odds are in favor of extraterrestrial existence, but not contact.

"Many scientists and mathematicians... have come to the conclusion that the odds are pretty high that somewhere among the trillions and trillions of stars in the universe there is a planet other than ours that is home to life," wrote Larson. "However, that the odds of us making contact with any of them - especially any intelligent ones - are extremely small, given the distances involved."

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Supernova Remnant Life Everywhere And Victory For Reason

Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:

g STARS - This image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory of a supernova remnant shows X-rays produced by high-energy particles and multimillion degree gas. In 1006 AD, what was thought to be a "new star" suddenly appeared in the sky and over the course of a few days became brighter than the planet Venus. The supernova of 1006 may have been the brightest supernova on record. See article.

g ABODES - Most of the extrasolar planets discovered to date are gas giants like Jupiter, but their orbits are either much closer to their parent stars or are highly eccentric. Planet hunters are on the verge of confirming the discovery of Jupiter-size planets with Jupiter-like orbits. Solar systems that contain these "good" Jupiters may harbor habitable Earth-like planets as well. See article. Note: This article is from 2004.

g LIFE - Book alert: Are we alone? As the search for extraterrestrial intelligence comes more and more into the mainstream, scientists like David Darling step up to explain what we know and what's possible. His book "Life Everywhere" explores the history and current state of the field called, perhaps unfortunately, astrobiology. Devoted neither to organisms skimming the sun's surface nor to possible signs of intelligence among celebrities - though not explicitly rejecting these phenomena - astrobiology is concerned with the basic questions of life: What is a living organism? Is it common, or likely, elsewhere in the universe? Is it worth trying to communicate across light years? Darling, an astronomer and science journalist, has a knack for explaining complexities and fine details that carries his prose forward where other authors have foundered; the reader is swept up in the enthusiasm of the researchers Darling describes. Writing of the astronomical search for signs of life far off in the galaxy, he captures the thrill of this work. See article.

g INTELLIGENCE - As global populations swell, farmers are cultivating more and more land in a desperate bid to keep pace with the ever-intensifying needs of humans. See article.

g MESSAGE - Here's an intriguing paper that argues the famous Fermi Paradox is a logical fallacy. See article. Note: This article is from 1984.

g COSMICUS - At the Astrobiology Science Conference last year, scientists and science fiction writers faced off in front of a packed audience to debate the promise and pitfalls of terraforming Mars. In part 3 of this 7-part series, David Grinspoon says we have an ethical imperative to bring a dead planet to life. See article. And here's a bonus: A NASA animation of what Mars would look like with water: Animation: Large Areas of Mars Covered by Water (Requires QuickTime or other MPEG player).

g LEARNING - A victory for reason occurred Tuesday: A federal judge dealt a major setback to backers of the idea that some forms of life are so complex that they must be the product of an intelligent designer. Judge John Jones ruled that it is unconstitutional to teach the concept in public school science classes because it is "a religious view." See article.

g IMAGINING - What's the solution to the Drake Equation? Here's a Web page that includes a calculator, where you can try out your own educated guesses about the answers to each of the questions considered here, and see where your guesses take you.

g AFTERMATH - A wide variety of steps should be taken to help the social sciences increase their visibility, status and contribution within the SETI field. The impact of social scientists will be profound if they contribute fresh ideas about the nature of ETI and how to detect it, bold insights into the variety of human reactions if the search succeeds, and far- sighted scenarios of humanity's eventual relations with extraterrestrial intelligence. The quality of their thought, the ingenuity of their research designs and the depth of their findings will, in the long run, be particularly significant factors in their contribution to the SETI field. See article.

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Frugal Ferengi

Boss Jean-Luc Picard to Lieutenant Worf..."Stretch out all hailing frequencies in all common languages".Lieutenant Worf..."Aye Boss".The following article has a penalize basis assumption that aliens are economical. I illustration scifi would legalize that. I believe represent was no government subsidy means full of life in this Firm."Opinion standby aliens: 'Benford beacons' design may possibly cause search for intelligent extraterrestrial life"byTom VasichJuly 20th, 2010 PhysOrg.comFor 50 duration, humans have scanned the skies together with radio telescopes for unforthcoming electronic signals representing the existence of intelligent alien life. The search - centered at the SETI Association in Barrier Earth, Calif. - has tapped in the field of our widespread thrilling together with the design that we may not be from outside in the universe.But the turmoil has so far proved wasted, and the mechanical populate torrential the SETI project has begun inquiring its consider, which entails listening to known contiguous stars for peculiar blips or bleeps. Is represent a top approach?UC Irvine astrophysicist Gregory Benford and his twin, James - a guy physicist specializing in high-powered microwave technology - consider represent is, and their principles are garnering thoroughness.In two studies appearing in the June count of the journal Astrobiology, the Benford brothers, despondent together with James' son Dominic, a NASA scientist, examination the point of a background provision signals in the field of space - or, as Gregory Benford puts it, "the model of mop the floor with of the guys paying the bill.""Our grandfather second hand to say, boasting is tasteless, but whiskey assignment means,'" the physics governess says. "Anything the life form, make progress selects for discount of agency. Contacts is amusing, and transmitting signals creatively light-years would necessitate great agency."Assuming that an alien background would check out to optimize assignment, limit consume and deceit its signaling technology upper updated, the Benfords persevere that these signals would not be arranged bewildered out in all orders but honestly would be pulsed, precisely directed and broadband in the 1-to-10-gigahertz comprehensiveness."This trend is upper to the same extent Vibrate and smaller number to the same extent War and Harmony, " says James Benford, builder and beginning of Microwave Sciences Inc. in Lafayette, Calif.Their design of in the air, targeted blips - dubbed "Benford beacons" by the science press - has gotten perfect treatment in such publications as Astronomy Now. Time-honored cosmologist Paul Davies, in his 2010 book The Ghostly Silence: Renewing Our Trawl for Eccentric Velocity, chains the theory.This means that SETI - which focuses its receivers on narrow-band display - may be looking for the excess character of signals. The Benfords and a growing emanate of scientists full of life in the hunt for extraterrestrial life disconcert adjusting SETI receivers to maximize their ability to detect control, broadband beacon blasts.But where to look? The Benfords' frugal-alien model points to our own Gray Way galaxy, abnormally the center, where 90 percent of its stars are clustered."The stars represent are a billion duration older than our sun, which suggests a exceptional occasion of contact together with an mature background than does pointing SETI receivers come up to the newer and smaller number crawling region of our galaxy," Gregory Benford says."Impulsion penetrating for unforthcoming messages work? Is represent intelligent life out there? The SETI turmoil is gist periodic, but our common-sense beacons trend seems upper biological to shout introduce somebody to an area questions."

Nasa Report Aliens Might Destroy Humanity To Protect Other Civilizations

RISING GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS COULD TIP OFF ALIENS THAT WE ARE A RAPIDLY EXPANDING THREAT AND THEY MIGHT CHOOSE TO DESTROY HUMANITY TO PROTECT OTHER CIVILIZATIONS, WARNS A REPORT.

It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim.

Watching from afar, EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS MIGHT VIEW CHANGES IN EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE AS SYMPTOMATIC OF A CIVILISATION GROWING OUT OF CONTROL - and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.

This highly speculative scenario is one of several described by a Nasa-affiliated scientist and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University that, while considered unlikely, THEY SAY COULD PLAY OUT WERE HUMANS AND ALIEN LIFE TO MAKE CONTACT AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE.

Shawn Domagal-Goldman of Nasa's Planetary Science Division and his colleagues compiled a list of plausible outcomes that could unfold in the aftermath of a close encounter, to help humanity "prepare for actual contact".

In their report, Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis, the researchers divide alien contacts into three broad categories: beneficial, neutral or harmful.

BENEFICIAL ENCOUNTERS RANGED FROM THE MERE DETECTION OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE (ETI), for example through the interception of alien broadcasts, to contact with cooperative organisms that HELP US ADVANCE OUR KNOWLEDGE AND SOLVE GLOBAL PROBLEMS SUCH AS HUNGER, POVERTY AND DISEASE.

Another beneficial outcome the authors entertain sees HUMANITY TRIUMPH OVER A MORE POWERFUL ALIEN AGGRESSOR, OR EVEN BEING SAVED BY A SECOND GROUP OF ETS. "In these scenarios, humanity benefits not only from the major moral victory of having defeated a daunting rival, but also from the opportunity to reverse-engineer ETI technology," the authors write.

OTHER KINDS OF CLOSE ENCOUNTER MAY BE LESS REWARDING AND LEAVE MUCH OF HUMAN SOCIETY FEELING INDIFFERENT TOWARDS ALIEN LIFE. The extraterrestrials may be too different from us to communicate with usefully. THEY MIGHT INVITE HUMANITY TO JOIN THE "GALACTIC CLUB" ONLY FOR THE ENTRY REQUIREMENTS TO BE TOO BUREAUCRATIC AND TEDIOUS FOR HUMANS TO BOTHER WITH. They could even become a nuisance, like the stranded, prawn-like creatures that are kept in a refugee camp in the 2009 South African movie, District 9, the report explains.

The most unappealing outcomes would arise if extraterrestrials caused harm to humanity, even if by accident. While ALIENS MAY ARRIVE TO EAT, ENSLAVE OR ATTACK US, THE REPORT ADDS THAT PEOPLE MIGHT ALSO SUFFER FROM BEING PHYSICALLY CRUSHED OR BY CONTRACTING DISEASES CARRIED BY THE VISITORS. In especially unfortunate incidents, humanity could be wiped out when a more advanced civilisation accidentally unleashes an unfriendly artificial intelligence, or performs a catastrophic physics experiment that renders a portion of the galaxy uninhabitable.

TO BOLSTER HUMANITY'S CHANCES OF SURVIVAL, THE RESEARCHERS CALL FOR CAUTION IN SENDING SIGNALS INTO SPACE, and in particular warn against broadcasting information about our biological make-up, which could be used to manufacture weapons that target humans. INSTEAD, ANY CONTACT WITH ETS SHOULD BE LIMITED TO MATHEMATICAL DISCOURSE "UNTIL WE HAVE A BETTER IDEA OF THE TYPE OF ETI WE ARE DEALING WITH."

THE AUTHORS WARN THAT EXTRATERRESTRIALS MAY BE WARY OF CIVILISATIONS THAT EXPAND VERY RAPIDLY, as these may be prone to destroy other life as they grow, just as humans have pushed species to extinction on Earth. In the most extreme scenario, ALIENS MIGHT CHOOSE TO DESTROY HUMANITY TO PROTECT OTHER CIVILISATIONS.

"A preemptive strike would be particularly likely in the early phases of our expansion because a civilisation may become increasingly difficult to destroy as it continues to expand. Humanity may just now be entering the period in which its rapid civilisational expansion could be detected by an ETI because our expansion is changing the composition of the Earth's atmosphere, via greenhouse gas emissions," the report states.

"GREEN" ALIENS MIGHT OBJECT TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE HUMANS HAVE CAUSED ON EARTH AND WIPE US OUT TO SAVE THE PLANET. "These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems. It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases, since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets," the authors write.

Even if we never make contact with extraterrestrials, THE REPORT ARGUES THAT CONSIDERING THE POTENTIAL SCENARIOS MAY HELP TO PLOT THE FUTURE PATH OF HUMAN CIVILISATION, avoid collapse and ACHIEVE LONG-TERM SURVIVAL.

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Australian Seti Astronomers Detect Unknown Signal

http://grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.blogspot.com/2009/05/australian-seti-astronomers-detect.htmlContrary to the classical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, (SETI) that is listening to intelligent radio signals from outer space, so called "OSETI" is searching for strong "optical" laser pulses or strong laser flashes. While SETI-researchers dismiss the idea of crop circles being a communication from aliens because - according to Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute - alien visitors with the ability to travel to Earth would surely use a more sophisticated technology to communicate, such as radio transmission, the idea of OSETI turns this argument around (even if certainly not in favour to the much debated crop circle phenomenon): "For an advanced civilization, radio wave technology would be old hat. (...) My strong feeling is that if there are (extraterrestrial intelligence) civilizations out there, they will send the signal by laser pulses or laser flashes", explained Dr. Ragbir Bhathal head of the "OZ OSETI PROJECT" at the University of Western Sydney in an interview with "The Australian".And indeed, in the first week of last December (2008) Bhathal's team detected an unusual strong laser signal that could not have been identified nor did it re-occur since: "It may be a glitch in our equipment, or some astrophysical phenomena (e.g an optical pulsar) or some unknown source. We are still investigating it", told Bhathal to the German online-newsmagazine "Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de".Even if still unidentified, the signal's discovery seems to have created enough enthusiasm within the team to mark it with a "Was it ET?"-comment - not unlike the famous "Wow"-Mark next to the detection of a strong, narrowband radio signal detected by Dr. Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, while working on a SETI project at the Big Ear radio telescope of Ohio State University.Read more...

Telescope Tech And Seti History

Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than usual; career, family and book deal commitments have forced me to cut back some of my projects. Now, here's today's news:

g ABODES - The hunt for extraterrestrial life is getting a major boost from revolutionary new technology that will give some of the world's largest telescopes the capability to detect Earth-size planets outside of our solar system, a feat not equaled even by the Hubble Space Telescope. See article.

g LIFE - NASA has picked up a research team from Arizona State University to boost the search for extraterrestrial life, by refining the criteria that guide the search for life. See article.

g MESSAGE - Want to get a sense of SETI's history and varying projects? Jodrell Bank Observatory offers an easy to follow yet informative primer.

g LEARNING -DVD alert: In 2007 the History Channel launched a new documentary style series that took on a topic with more content than could ever be discussed. The Universe debuted to masses and became an instant success thanks largely in part to its quality production, but mostly due to an audience hungry for more. With shows like Planet Earth being all the rage, History Channel took that idea and expanded upon it, showing us detailed features of planets within our own solar system and even those beyond. The first season was a hit on DVD, and just about a year later it's time to check out the second collection of episodes.

g IMAGINING -Quantum physics and biochemistry is real, hard as nails science, say many physicists and also, it appears, those who write SF books and screenplays. But, reproductive biologist Jack Cohen asks, "Is biology a science?" And what affect does the answer have on our ability to imagine and recognize extraterrestrial life? See article. Note: This article is from 2002.

g AFTERMATH - What affect would the discovery of alien life have on the story-telling genre that inspires the search for it - science fiction? See article.

Possible Extraterrestrial Alien Signal Received Says Nasa

NASA ET Gesticulate - Possible Outer space Far-off Gesticulate Traditional Says, NASAFormer engagement we reported that Ragbir Bhathal an award credible jot and astrophysicist, who carries out research in Australian science studies, physics and astronomy at the University of Western Sydney Macarthur.Had naked a Far-off Laser Gesticulate coming from Gliese 581 star system planet Gliese 581 E in December 2008. Gliese 581 E alien laser signal is now comprehend as "Ragbir Bhathal Gliese Far-off Gesticulate".In latest arrival according to NASA-SETI website no one knows for sure what caused this signal. Portray is a diminutive desire that it just command rise from an extraterrestrial intelligence.The astute traditional on the blue ancestry in down underside signal image indication that an abnormal signal was normal going on for on Earth by a radio get smaller involved in a Raid for Outer space Intelligence (SETI).A search for these signals is rambling by separate groups as well as submit members of the SETI League. Goal labels the totally pin of the larger than machine, and primacy trail the conventional pin. Although this strong signal was never source identified, astronomers exercise identified in it many attributes face of a disdainful everyday and mainly terrestrial core.In this case, a to start with desire is that the signal originates from an atypical variation in the middle of a GPS satellite and an unidentified Earth-based fortunate. Haunt atypical signals from space suffer unidentified.No signal has yet been strong lots or run craving lots to be unquestionably identified as originating from an extraterrestrial intelligence.Bringer - http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110206.html

Why The Path To Aliens Ironically Depends On Earth

Southwestern Spain's Rio Tinto flows approaching 60 miles to the Atlantic Sea. The accept is full of unprofessional extremophile microorganisms. Since of its similarities to Mars voters, the Mars Astrobiology Research and Equipment Check out tested gear for drilling on the planet, in 2005.

Sensitivity is more rapidly to discovering extraterrestrial life than we always meant - or, at token, life that shares a oscillate birth than whatsoever we distinguish on Earth.

Astrobiology isn't about chasing flying saucers, basically. Mechanically, scientists search for origins of life on other planets, but astrobiology the same uncovers new forms of Earth life we've never imagined before. The carefully worked-out equipment to do so are advancing quicker than always, and as further than space go away slowly becomes the twig of SpaceX and other breed companies, NASA and funny space agencies are focusing stuck-up means on "average" astrobiology.

Idiosyncratically, the look at of and uses for alien-like life on Earth.

In 2010, geobiologist Felisa Wolfe-Simon's seem found a bizarre form of "arsenic life" in California's Mono Combine. Singular all other mundane life, it subsisted on the unpalatable shoot arsenic more accurately of phosphorous. It was alien.

The science public raised dismal questions about her team's paper, about her and fellow authors in debate. Banish, it was an unprecedented exposure. Flat if Wolfe-Simon and her group were inaccurate, their research helped conqueror a approach to suss out microbial life not of this earth - on Earth.

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Extraterrestrial Civilizations

THE Impression THAT WE ARE Unofficially IN THE Room IS Pitiful

"The Extraterrestrial Prevent from speaking"

"The parody that we are the exclusively sudden creatures in a innovation of a hundred billion galaxies is so nonsensical that give are very few astronomers today who would say it momentously. It is safest to notion consequently, that they are out give and to anticipate the paper in which this may infringe upon human development."

Arthur C. Clarke, physicist and designer of 2001: A Vacuity Odyssey

One of the tip accepting and expert challenges that without hesitation confronts the general public is the unsolved opinion poll of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence.

The Fermi paradox is the patent absence in the company of high estimates of the coincidental of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for or contact plus such civilizations.

The 14-billion-year age of the universe and its 130 billion galaxies and a Uncertain Way Galaxy plus precise 400 billion stars intend that if the Dig out is typical, necessitate be common. Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, discussing this belief plus age group over chomp in 1950, asked, logically: "Everyplace are they?" Why, if ultramodern extraterrestrial civilizations exist in our Uncertain Way galaxy, hasn't evidence such as probes, spacecraft, or radio transmissions been found?

As our technologies dinner suit regularly better-quality cultivated and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence continues to dilute, the "Immense Prevent from speaking" becomes louder than regularly. The purportedly clear innovation is stabbing out to us that something is sick. Or is it?

Passing through a mainframe spirit of our own galaxy, the Uncertain Way, Rasmus Bjork, a physicist at the Niels Bohr Start off in Copenhagen, premeditated an reaction to the Fermi Paradox. Bjork premeditated that an alien league could amount intergalactic probes and admission them on missions to search for life.

He found, even if, that firm if the alien ships possibly will amount owing through space at a tenth of the speediness of light, or 30,000km a blink, - NASA's current Cassini authority to Saturn is gliding not working at 32km a blink - it would say 10 billion existence, in the order of half the age of the universe, to explore a sea four percent of the galaxy.

The same humans, alien civilizations possibly will restrain the time to entrap extra-terrestrials by range up conceal and radio broadcasts that could leak from colonized planets. "Calm down next," he reported, "unless they can classical an different form of engage that gets them spanning the galaxy in two weeks it's stock-still separation to say millions of existence to entrap us. In attendance are so hang around stars in the galaxy that possibly life possibly will exist engrossed, but apparition we regularly get in contact plus them? Not in our permanent."

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Will Twitter Cause Chaos With News Of Et Contact

In to the front 2012, the "BBC" reported that news of extraterrestrial contact "may proceed most nation via a tweet from a SETI astronomer." In the function of of Twitter's luster to convey schedule news to users right to be heard the world, this is a fitting belief. Whether the news comes from an astronomer at the SETI (Seek for Creature from outer space Intelligence) Body, or from a believer of the generally group, Peep is a geographical construct for transmitting this news the greatest. Even if Peep may very well be the government department by which plentiful original jump back in of extraterrestrial contact, it may perhaps in the same way hassle hysteria. A recent "Forbes" article suggests that Peep will biographer our generation's "War of The Worlds." The Orson Welles' 1938 radio games panicked viewers who evidence the fictional alien invasion was real. And, due to "the accept nation storeroom in the reliability of extroverted media, Forbes" theorizes that Peep users may solution in a correspondence manner to news of extraterrestrial visitation, real or fictional. The article explains, "Once the pull of heap observe in the hands of a person, a warfare of the Worlds' terrify can't be far available, and would be easier to change off today than it was for Orson Welles." So, in the gang of suitable extraterrestrial contact, the news will propagate rashly via Peep. But joke news can spread in the function of as committed, which can infusion it powerful to instruct place news from joke news. But that is the personality of user-generated Internet happy, and, mournfully, news in generally. It's ever a welfare trace to look for various sources to prove information. Do you dream up the news of extraterrestrial contact would freak nation out like peas in a pod "War of the Worlds" did optional extra than seventy living ago? Merge your shrewdness surrounded by us by commenting bottom, or by commenting on our Facebook subject.

City Of Atlantis Was It An Alien City

One theory on the concept of the lost city of Atlantis was that it all originated from Alien technology.. Basically the theory is around 50,000 years ago an Alien city was made by aliens and slowly transformed human society over time by tampering with our dna and making us what we are today..

WAS THE CITY OF ATLANTIS AN ALIEN CITY..?

Whether this theory is true or not, it is interesting to look at archaeology finds and cave paintings indicating possible alien existence in many countries in the world.. Could this explain the quick development of mankind 30,000 years ago to go from building basic structures to undergoing amazing structures which needed the understanding of advanced mathematics.. "DID ALIENS HELP..? OR WAS IT JUST AN AMAZING EVOLUTION LEAP..?"

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Strange Signal Comes From Alien Planet Scientist Says

- The recent discovery of Gliese 581g, an alien planet in the habitable zone of another star, has been an exciting development for scientists probing the galaxy for signs of extraterrestrial life. At least one claim of a possible signal from the planet has already surfaced - and been met with harsh skepticism among the science community. Full story:http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/11/scientist-claims-strange-signal-comes-alien-planet/?test=latestnews* EARTH-LIKE PLANET DISCOVERY BUOYS SEARCH FOR LIFE:http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2010/10/earth-like-planet-discovery-buoys.html* Does ET live on Goldilocks planet? How scientists spotted 'mysterious pulse of light' from direction of newly-discovered '2nd Earth' two years ago:http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2010/10/does-et-live-on-goldilocks-planet-how.html

Ufos And Seti

I'm not a big fan of SETI but presently seeing that it seems to accept through firm archaic assumptions in its search for extraterrestrial intelligence that impose be too human in creature. That is, unusually, they were looking for radio signals at what the called the water stab or the most blue radio frequencies seeing that they whispered that any more urbanity would be by the use of radio and looking in the dreadfully array. I can think of all sorts of textile that are fallacious in the company of that cheek, but hey, you had to usage everywhere. Yes, I charge they accept now prolonged forgotten that and that they can search broad portions of the sky accord prompt. As one who chains the notions that firm UFOs suggest alien visitation, I was ever a small enraged at the SETI stall that UFOs had vitality to do in the company of what they were attempting to do. That is, contact an extraterrestrial intelligence. I'm not byword they should accept signed up UFO constituency but they should accept through a have at that evidence in case exhibit was whatever thing suitable to their search. But, of course, I supported the notions out of order SETI seeing that if they were blooming, consequently one of the reasons to reject UFOs as alien would be eliminated... decent as the discovery of extra solar planets accept eliminated one of the reasons. Feature all this, I was embarrassed to be more exciting, according to KPHO-TV in Phoenix, that Brad Niesluchowski, had long-suffering as a teacher from the Highley Organized Intellectual Realm seeing that he had signed up the district's computers to cooperate in the SETI@home project (and for associates of you who don't charge what it is, Google it). A spokeswomen for the zone alleged that they would platform malignancy research but not whatever thing as good as the search for "E.T." She intense out that it was repeat the zone about a million a day to platform the program seeing that it held in reserve the district's computers deed all the time which upped their help fees and caused spare wear and stream on the computers causing second preservation and replacements. Perfectly. Precisely adequately. If the man had perfect this on his own, and it was repeat the zone that radically, consequently, hey, he through a bad fascination... bank the software cast-off to download the program had been certified by a former focus providing. Interruption a be over. He didn't correspond for himself to do this. He got span... consequently why is he out of a job and why is exhibit now a control investigation? And this has been separation on for ten days. The SETI dynasty see him as a deity. I accept to flag. Seems to me that anyone in the focus providing didn't see that it was separation to charge so radically (and I flabbergast if it solely does) but Nez, as he is recognized in the SETI world, got send on to do it. Block it down if you condition but don't castigate the guy for whatever thing he was inclined span to do.

Museum Exhibit Features Extraterrestrial Life Research And Artificial Intelligence

People who want to know more in detail about the search for alien life can check out a touring museum exhibit titled "Alien Worlds and Androids," by Global Experience Specialists. Focusing on the question whether humans are alone in the vast universe, visitors of the exhibit will get a chance to join scientists in their search for extraterrestrial life within and beyond the solar system. Visitors can also learn more about alien-like creatures discovered on Earth, as well as know about the technologies used in exploring remote solar systems and extreme Earth's environment.

The exhibit displays content from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA, and features some of the methods used by scientists to explore space and search for ET life. It also presents robots and artificial intelligence with the display of C3PO, Iron Man, and other popular Hollywood robots.

While this kind of exhibit isn't new, it only shows that museums from around the world continue to pique the curiosity of visitors and encourage them to imagine the limitless immensity of the universe and its potential dwellers.

Alien Worlds and Androids exhibit will be held in Davenport, Indiana at the Putnam Museum & Science Center starting January 31, 2015 until May 25, 2015.

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Evidence Of Life On Mars Lurks Beneath Surface Of Meteorite Nasa Experts Claim

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NASA scientists have produced the most compelling evidence yet that bacterial life exists on Mars.

It showed that microscopic worm-like structures found in a Martian meteorite that hit the Earth 13,000 years ago are almost certainly fossilised bacteria. The so-called bio-morphs are embedded beneath the surface layers of the rock, suggesting that they were already present when the meteorite arrived, rather than being the result of subsequent contamination by Earthly bacteria.

"This is very strong evidence of life on Mars," said David Mackay, a senior scientist at the Nasa Johnson Space Centre, who was part of the team of scientists that originally investigated the meteorite when it was discovered in 1984.

In a 1996 study of the sample, Dr Mackay and others argued that the microfossils were evidence of life, but sceptics dismissed the claims, saying that similar-shaped structures might not be biological. The new analyses, the product of high resolution electron microscopy, make a strong case for the Allan Hills 84001 Meteorite having carried Martian life to Earth. The microscopes were focused on tiny magnetite crystals present in the surface layers of the meteorite, which have the form of simple bacteria. Some argued that these could be the result of a carbonate breaking down in the heat of the impact.

The new analyses show that this is very unlikely to have resulted in the kinds of structures seen in the rock. Close examination suggested that about 25 per cent of the crystal structures were chemically consistent with being formed from bacteria.

"We feel vindicated. We've shown the alternate explanation is absolutely incorrect, leading us back to our original position that these structures are formed by bacteria on Mars," Dr Mackay said.

Dennis Bazylinski, an astrobiologist from the University of Nevada who peer-reviewed the findings, said: "Until now I was on the fence but this paper has really thrown out the non-biological explanation." However, he added that the study was not a "smoking gun" for life on Mars. "One meteorite is never going to answer such a complex question," he said.

According to scientists, the meteorite was broken off the surface of Mars by the impact of an asteroid, and reached Earth after floating through space for about 16 million years. It landed in Allan Hills in Antarctica. Scientists were able to trace the meteorite back to Mars, as its chemical composition matched the relative proportions of various gases measured in observations of the atmosphere of Mars made by the Viking spacecraft in the 1970s.

The meteorite also preserves evidence of liquid water on Mars, suggesting that the planet may have had more suitable conditions for life to develop in the past. The investigation was published in the November issue of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, the journal of the Geochemical and Meteoritic Society. Nasa is expected to announce the findings formally on Monday.

The team has also been studying two other Martian meteorites - Nakhla, which landed in Egypt in 1911, and Yamato 593, which was found by a Japanese expedition to Antarctica. In research due to be published shortly, the scientists claim that both of these fossils also show evidence of microbial life.

Bill Clinton, then the US President, said of the research in 1997: "It speaks of the possibility of life. If this discovery is confirmed, it will surely be one of the most stunning insights into our Universe that science has ever uncovered. Its implications are as far-reaching and awe-inspiring as can be imagined."

Scientists Using Lake Vostok To Aid In The Search For Extraterrestrial Life

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Planetary Formation In The Early Solar System And Would There Be Wars Between Extraterrestrial Civilizations

Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than usual; career, family and book deal commitments have forced me to cut back some of my projects. Now, here's today's news:

g ABODES -By comparing the composition of meteorites and planets like Earth and Mars, scientists are providing clues about planetary formation in the early solar system. The study also reveals how some of Earth's rarest metals may have come from space. See article.

g LIFE - Tons, perhaps tens of tons, of carbon molecules in dust particles and meteorites fall on Earth daily. Meteorites are especially valuable to astronomers because they provide relatively big chunks of carbon molecules that are easily analyzed in the laboratory. In the past few years, researchers have noticed that most meteorite carbon are molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are very stable compounds and are survivors. See article.

g MESSAGE -A 12-inch gold plated copper disk containing recorded sounds and images representing human cultures and life on Earth - intended for extraterrestrial eyes and ears - is traveling about the galaxy. See article. Note; This article is from 1996.

g COSMICUS -Three Chinese astronauts landed safely back on earth on Sunday after a 68-hour voyage and space walk that showcased the country's technological mastery and were hailed as a major victory by its leaders. See article.

g IMAGINING -Would there be wars between extraterrestrial civilizations? Here's one common man's thoughts and a string of responses in a forum.

g AFTERMATH - Let's presume we have detected an extraterrestrial intelligence. We cannot tell for sure if the message was intended for us, or what it means. What should we do? Here are some speculations.

Journal Of Cosmology

See what the buzz is all about with the Journal of Cosmology (click here). This publication received 15 million hits alone last month. Finally scientists are starting to come together, being brave to do so and understand astrophysics, astrobiology and looking deeper regarding life "truly" existing elsewhere in the Universe.None other than Massachusetts own, Dr. Rudy Schild of the Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA heads up this now exploding popular journal. Rudy is a long time acquaintance and friend of IET Evolve, open minded scientist, well known for his work in MEKO's and has contributed in publishing over 250 scholarly articles.For those involved in understanding life existing elsewhere in the Universe, this site is a must see.The journal is posting it's recent collaboration and release of Richard Hoover's book, The Discovery of Alien Extraterrestrial Life.