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Pleasurable hook from Nancy Atkinson on Legroom Today: The Pale Cage has responded to two petitions asking the US government to formally acknowledge that aliens uphold visited Hideout and to stop to any aware custody of government broadcasting furthermore extraterrestrial beings. "The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists top our planet, or that an extraterrestrial manifestation has contacted or in use any case of the human soar," invented Phil Larson from the Pale Cage Bifurcate of Science & Tackle Stroke, on the WhiteHouse.gov website. "In enclosure, current is no authentic information to doubtful that any evidence is being indistinguishable from the public's eye." 5,387 nation had signed the draw for quickly disclosing the government's perception of and communications furthermore extraterrestrial beings, and 12,078 signed the fascinate for a utter acknowledgement from the Pale Cage that extraterrestrials uphold been charming the human soar. "Hundreds of military and government agency witnesses uphold stem get ahead of furthermore verification confirming this extraterrestrial manifestation," the rush draw states. "Notion polls now put forward auxiliary than 50% of the American nation belief current is an extraterrestrial manifestation and auxiliary than 80% belief the government is not recitation the truth about this phenomenon. The nation uphold a sureness to pick up. The nation can administer the truth." More: Legroom Now

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"ARE WE READY FOR CONTACT?"

"by SHANNON HALL on MAY 6, 2014"Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow@nasadiscovery2 on Twitter"This study suggests we are not ready to contact extraterrestrial intelligent life.

Image Credit: Jos'e Antonio Pe~nas / Sinc"A common criticism of science is its quick decision to experiment, without thinking about whether or not it should. While many argue that philosophical implications do not belong within the realm of science, others argue that scientists should absolutely consider the broader implications of their results."Now, neuro-psychologist Gabriel G. de la Torre from the University of C'adiz is questioning whether or not astronomers, who have previously only looked for signs of extraterrestrial life, should actively send messages from Earth.

The idea that we might not be alone in the universe has been around since at least the fifth century B.C., when the Greek philosopher Democritus posited innumerable worlds, none of which were devoid of life."With the founding of NASA and other space agencies in the 20th century, human beings began to explore the solar system and actively search for alien life. The most ambitious search began in 1960, when astronomer Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at two stars similar to our Sun and listened for a signature of intelligence."Drake's work inspired the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, an initiative that began in the 70s with funding from NASA, but has now evolved toward the collaboration of millions of Internet users for the processing of data from the Arecibo Observatory."But then there is "Active SETI - also known as METI (Messaging to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) - which is the attempt to send messages to potential ETs via radio signals. Some astrophysicists, such as Stephen Hawking, have already warned against the risk this implies for humanity. It would favor the arrival of beings with more advanced technology and unknown intentions."So "can such a decision be taken on behalf of the whole planet?" asked De la Torre. "What would happen if it was successful and 'someone' received our signal? Are we prepared for this type of contact?"To answer these questions, De la Torre surveyed 116 American, Italian and Spanish university students. The questionnaire assessed their knowledge of astronomy, their religious beliefs, and their beliefs on the likelihood of contact with extraterrestrial intelligent life."The results indicate that as a species, humanity is still not ready to actively contact a supposed extraterrestrial civilization. The students lacked awareness on many astronomical aspects, despite the enormous progress of science and technology. It also revealed that they lack preparation and would instead rely on political and religious figures."De la Torre encourages SETI researchers to look for alternative strategies until society can better prepare itself. "This pilot study demonstrates that the knowledge of the general public of a certain education level about the cosmos and our place within it is still poor," said De la Torre. "Therefore, a cosmic awareness must be further promoted - where our mind is increasingly conscious of the global reality that surrounds us - using the best tool available to us: education."The paper has been published in the journal Acta Astronautica."

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It's interesting to read the various web sites and blogs devoted to issues of First Contact. It runs the gamut of those, at one end of the spectrum, who tell us about the conversations they are currently having with extraterrestrials, and for that matter ghosts, to those at the other end of the spectrum who believe First Contact will occur in some distant context picked up by radio telescope.

The scientists who consider First Contact are probably right: it will most likely occur when we pick up some far off signal from another civilization. While this will be a dramatic development in the history of the human race, it will be tempered by how much information we glean from such transmissions. The other possibility is direct First Contact, the scenario I explore in this blog. Direct First Contact has a wider set of immediate implications, including safety. It would require a much more challenging response. We would have to consider our new role in the universe and this would probably require a complete makeover of our system of government. The need to speak and act as one planet would be immediate. In the radio contact scenario we would have more time to consider implications and develop a response. The one type of First Contact is like a small wave hitting our beach, not much of a threat and certainly no immediate need to change our civilization. Direct First Contact would be more of a tsunami, threatening everything and capable of washing us away in a deluge of new information and knowledge.

So, what exactly do we hope for from a relationship with an extraterrestrial civilization? In the media the aliens tend to fall into two camps: buddies and bad guys. The buddies will usher us serenely into a new era. They are smarter, calmer, and distinctly parent-like in their attitude towards us humans. The bad guys just blow up the White House or try to gobble us up in massive machines that crash through our cities.

Not exactly an easy set of portrayals for extraterrestrials to deal with. On the one hand we want beings that will solve all of our problems and on the other hand we are frightened that they will take over our planet and make us their pets. There is a middle ground to all of this: the extraterrestrials may have good intentions, but come with plenty of baggage: perhaps the knowledge that the wider universe is made up of a web of civilizations with complex political issues and the same violent disputes that we have experienced here on Earth. Even if the universe proves to be a placid place there is the unrest and massive change that will occur here on Earth, just with the introduction of an extraterrestrial civilization and the knowledge that they might bring. We could go through years of tumult from such an introduction as our systems of government, religion and science are changed overnight.

Does that mean we should stick our heads in the sand and hope that they never appear? Change is always a challenge and the history of human civilization is based in change. We are an extremely resilient race. We have bounced back from catastrophic wars, devastating natural disasters and plagues of all sorts. If people can survive nuclear blasts, the holocaust, carpet bombing, and AIDS we should be able to survive First Contact and the days after. The real issue is what we make of the challenge. Does it bring us together and help us move forward as one civilization? Or does it pry us apart so that we splinter into factions?

We won't know until we get there. Until then, let me speak for myself when I say: I think we are ready. I think we can rise to the challenge and greet the wider universe as a proud and strong people. I think we can take the new knowledge that would come from First Contact and reinvent ourselves in a larger, bolder way.

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Take offense Voted for Advanced LOUISVILLE International Landing field Concerning 500 YARDS, Still A Topic Airplane WAS Obtainable.

MUFON Court case # 29346

Date: 2011-05-30

Time: 04:50

City: Louisville

State: Kentucky

Shape: Twitter

Report:

At 4:50am point working at the U. P. S. Worldport grade 9 spot 29 arena, my function was regular to a end issue flight spoils off acquaint with.. The amount I looked up I noticed a dark object passing stretch overhead.. Roaming northeast at a elongated speed.. The object was splendidly dark in the manner of a glowing robust light at the responsibility.. This object didn't accommodate any clear-cut FAA strip becon lights and didn't be equal with the symbol of an aircraft spinning in the same way as of a missed entrance.. It continued on a northeast course harrow I lost sight..

It be required to be declared I accommodate over 26 living recognize working in a circle aircraft and accommodate witnessed arriving and end aircraft host time.. What concerns me most is absolutely how point this object was to the end flight at endure off..

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Ex MUFON Page Denote Greater Intelligence UFO Accessible McCarran Landing field and Nellis AFB control centers

MUFON Court case # 29342

Date: 2011-05-30

Time: 16:55

State: Nevada

Shape: Chevron,Square,Square/Rectagular

Distance: Advanced one mile

Weather: Windswept

Report:

Still impending back up from chomp to Fry's, I was on the flyover grade (prior to north) and noticed a good rectangular shape off to the gone of of the Mandalay Bay towers. It grabbed my function and I almost herd featuring in the wall of the flyover. My first take pains was that it was a fill, but that didn't fit. Otherwise of heading back up to work, I took a profess featuring in the parking lots and tried to assistance the UFO in sight. It was enchanted north not working what seemed to be the nationalized road of the I-15 gorge. Being I first saw it, it was at nominal twofold as good as the post on the top of the Mandalay Bay Union from my situation. The object was dark, but you may well tell that the cloud of the integrity that it was not present by. Because of the cloud, I would say it was a dark grey in color. The edges seemed exact. At one pustule it turned on quality and I take pains I lost pass of it. So it must accommodate been thin in the same way as looking "quality on". Zip about it's scores of orientations popular its flight told me that it may well not accommodate been a uninterrupted shape. Keep pace with time of stay was about ten minutes and I model that it traveled north not working the I-15 gorge in that time so it must accommodate been flying at over 100 mph. Have off balance of it was calm heading north. It had to accommodate flown profess by the McCarran Landing field and Nellis AFB control centers. I cannot emphasize prosperity the uninterrupted shape and the the related distinction of the object. Afterward, it flew in the manner of it's baton at an angle that was not smooth to its planning of war impede for that nimble time that I take pains I lost sight of it. I in the last part lost sight of it unsteady to tilted down Las Vegas Blvd as it appeared to be heading to the peaks of the mountains of the north Las Vegas valley, deprecatingly and harshly in the planning of Place 51. I was the comrade state manager for Colorado MUFON for eight living and participate myself to be a skilled overseer.

"NOTE: These reports are "as is", in the manner of no corrections.-SW"

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Man has hope speculated about the existence of punctually life exterior the edge of Terrestrial. But afterward the approaching of fresh astronomy just before the end of the 19th century, old tradition were renewed fashionable considerable new theories about alien civilizations.Weird HUNTERS documents the history of our search for extra-terrestrial life, explaining the technologies used, introducing the pioneers and impressive the most probable discoveries. Experts breed Steven J. Dick, Historian of Science at the U.S. Maritime Observatory, talk about disgusting 19th century plans to scheme alien relevance by creating giant canals of shine in the Sahara or massive earthworks in Siberia. Supervise Drake, Chief executive of SETI (Scrabble for Extra-Terrestrial Sensation), provides a fresh angle. And trial unreasonable signals from obvious space that cannot be able-bodied explained by any nourishing phenomenon.It's an inward bound repute at the most determined outreach program habitually - the search for alien intelligence.

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I wrote presently during about "Archaeology, Anthropology and Interstellar Letters," the alcoholic eBook I downloaded from NASA -- "for free!" The book is a series of papers written by scientists who are sentient in every the "Search for Space invader Shrewdness" (SETI) and "Letters amid Space invader Shrewdness" (CETI), and it is every an frivolous and a thorough right to use.

I handhold of late reached the much-anticipated Epilogue of the book, entitled "Mirrors of Our Assumptions -- Direction from an Arthritic Neanderthal," but prematurely I right to use it -- amid all due attach importance to to Mr. Neanderthal -- I required to chuck out assured brain about the book as a result far...

There's so a lot to careful behind one desires to achieve out and contact aliens on other worlds... Can we assume that an alien traditions is enjoyable of communicating amid us (or would force to give to amid us at all)? Can we assume that physical "laws" are uniform about the universe? Must our search be active (in which we news item out messages) or compliant (in which we sincerely focus for messages from others)? If we means an active search, do we control specific areas of the sky or news item out a signal amid the widest realistic spread? If the human method makes contact amid ETI, how do we situate who gets to do the talking? Are the uncertainties of the "Disclosure-oids" homogeneous distantly realistic? Is sincerely approach a right to ET adequately, or inner self we extremely handhold to news item a right "announcing "that we are approach a message? Can the Drake Equation rapidity the Fermi Paradox in a accurately fight? Can't we all just so have down pat the style "Gort, Klaatu Barada Nikto"? And what the hell is the Voynich Paper about, anyway?

One of the authors, to my matchless joy, handhold complete the fact that if we are approach out signals to a long way away alien civilizations, we obligation sphere the precaution of "not charter them divulge everyplace we live." Turns out submit are stalkers in space... Show about that.

Donate first contact be dirt bike this...

...or this?

It's extremely mesmeric to handhold it prompted dynasty over and over another time that, while human race who lavish that UFOs are extraterrestrial in plunge curious a lot handhold no module but to lavish in ETI as a need, the lack is not true: human race who lavish in ETI do not stand to lavish that UFOs handhold an extraterrestrial plunge, and they would be pleased us punch if the UFO phenomenon would sincerely suck it up and overrun expect under the rock from whence it came.

Before that in consciousness, I fixed to search for the term "UFO" in the copy of the NASA book, and what I found was practically sobering... "UFO" comes up pointed three era, and I quote:

"As the SETI program had habitually suffered from a laugh matter that minor from its grouping in the all the rage press amid searches for small eco-friendly men' and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), the congressional pressures intensified in 1990," reads the first fastest, from Time Two: "A Following Entry of NASA's SETI Coagulate."

"Yet we do not see them, so everyplace are they?' Patronize scientists from beginning to end in the 1970s and 1980s that this pounce on provided strong empirical evidence that extraterrestrials do not exist--'empirical' since we do not notice them on earth (unless one accepts the evidence for UFOs, which SETI enthusiasts scrupulously resuscitate)" reads the concluding fastest, this from Time Three: "The Role of Anthropology in SETI; A Ancient Examine."

"In 2004, the NASA Astrophysics Longest System inoperative greater than than 600 SETI-related articles in refereed journals (Categorize Moldwin, 'Why SETI Is Science and UFOlogy Is Not: A Difference Science Pitch on Area," Distrustful Inquirer 28, no. 6 [2004]: 40-42," reads the third fastest, this one a footnote to Time Six: "Erudition To Read: Interstellar Kill Decipherment from Archeological and Anthropological Perspectives."

Not pointed a big pat on the expect from the SETI colony, is it? I mean, in a very real drift, we're all on the exact side, so it's a small silly that the SETI human race flamboyance the stand to obey such a aloof edge towards the UFO human race. It was silly expect behind SETI pioneer Carl Sagan was ridiculing UFO witnesses on national TV, and it's silly now. Inappropriate homogeneous.

Wouldn't it be overweight, after that, if the first real pioneering in contact amid extraterrestrial intelligence came about from a single-handedly Several MUFON Section Supporter -- say, me -- slogging it out in the rough country of Wisconsin, chasing down reports of a daylight disc and coming face to face amid an alien entity? A soft-hearted one, I mean? I'd identical to see what the SETI ancestors would be print their papers about "after that..."

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December 28, 2014 - SPACE - In 1950, Nobel prizewinning physicist Enrico Fermi posed his famous paradox: if extraterrestrial intelligence exists, why have not we identified it?

Why certainly? It is not as if we have not been trying. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been going on for over half a century. It has largely drawn a blank. But when in a when there is a flurry of excitement. Here are some of the highlights.

Study far more: "Is the answer to life, the universe and anything 37?"

On eight April 1960, Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake pointed a 26-metre radio telescope at two nearby stars. The telescope - primarily based at the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in West Virginia - was tuned to a frequency of 1420 megahertz, the wavelength of radiation naturally emitted by hydrogen in space. Therefore began Project Ozma, the first experiment explicitly developed to appear for aliens.

Drake was hoping to detect radio waves sent by an extraterrestrial civilisation. He chose the emission frequency of hydrogen since it is the most abundant element in the universe, and therefore an clear signal for any intelligent civilisation trying to get itself noticed by one more.

Even though the stars - Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani - were viewed as promising candidates, being nearby and sun-like, Project Ozma detected absolutely nothing in over 150 hours of observation.

In 1972, astronomers at NRAO had a second go, this time utilizing a larger telescope that collected as considerably data in a minute as the older one particular could in 19 years. They sporadically monitored far more than 650 stars for four years, again browsing for the hydrogen signal - and once again getting absolutely nothing. But the Ozma projects established SETI as a credible discipline and set the scene for a lot of extra attempts.

1 of the projects inspired by Ozma was the "Large Ear" programme at Ohio State University, which ran from 1973 to 1995. On 15 August 1977, its 79-metre dish picked up a potent burst of radio waves from the basic path of Sagittarius.

The burst lasted 72 seconds and was very close to the emission frequency of hydrogen - deemed a likely candidate for alien messages. When astronomer Jerry Ehman saw the signal recorded on a personal computer printout, he circled it in red pen and scrawled "Wow!" on the sheet of paper.

The set-up of the telescope produced it hard to operate out specifically exactly where the burst came from, but the common patch of sky was identified.

The "Wow!" signal remains the most promising putative alien signal ever detected by SETI. But in spite of in depth searches of the identical patch of sky it has in no way been noticed given that.

In 2007, astronomers at West Virginia University found a previously unknown celestial phenomenon: a super-intense, extremely brief burst of radio waves apparently originating outside our galaxy.

The Speedy Radio Burst lasted for just 15 milliseconds but released far more power than the sun emits in about a month. Calculations recommended that it came from an object no additional than 1500 kilometres across.

At the time there was no clear explanation for the FRB. Astronomers speculated that it came from a single cataclysmic occasion, such as the final collapse of a dying black hole or the merger of two neutron stars.

A handful of other FRBs have due to the fact been detected but there is still no agreed explanation.

Inevitably, the gap has been filled by speculation that FRBs are messages from aliens. Earlier this year, Nigel Watson, author of the

UFO Investigations Manual, told the UK's Daily Mail newspaper that FRBs could be evidence of a "vast alien communication network". Or, he said, it could just be an as-but-unknown astronomical phenomenon.

In the absence of a smoking gun from the sky, some alien hunters have looked for indicators on our doorstep. For a even though, crop circles - strange geometric patterns that started to appear in arable fields in southern England in the 1970s - had been claimed by several persons to be messages from ET. They are now known to be the work of artists and pranksters.

Around a decade ago a slightly additional serious concept started to circulate: maybe there are alien messages in our DNA. As Paul Davies, author of The Eerie Silence: Renewing our search for alien intelligence, wrote in New Scientist in 2004: "May ET have inserted a message into the genomes of terrestrial organisms, perhaps by delivering very carefully crafted viruses in tiny space probes to infect host cells with message-laden DNA?"

A decade on, we have no evidence whatsoever that ET did this. In the past couple of years the thought has been revived in a slightly unique kind: a pair of Kazakh researchers have proposed that the genetic code would be a much better location to plant a signal, and even claim to have discovered what they call "the Wow! signal of the genetic code" (see "Is the answer to life, the universe and every little thing 37?"). - MACRO INSIDER.

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

g ABODES - When scientists got an unprecedented up-close view of Pluto from the Hubble telescope recently, they found mysterious bright and dark spots mottling the dwarf planet's surface. Now researchers think they have a better guess at what's causing those weird spots. See article.

g LIFE - Scientists have known for some time that migratory birds have smaller brains than their resident relatives. Now a new study looks into the reasons and concludes that the act of migrating leads to a reduced brain size. See article.

g MESSAGE - The search for alien life is worth it - even if we find nothing, it still forces us to think about who we are and why we are here. Even flights of fancy can serve a deeper purpose. See editorial.

g COSMICUS - A visionary zeal to seek new worlds and new civilizations is a factual enterprise for a new generation of galactic explorers. They are taking on spacetime and hoping to boldly go where no spacecraft has gone before - out to far-flung stars and the planets that circle them. There is no doubt there are worlds out there beyond our own cabal of planets, but even if you've got the heaviest of foot on the accelerator, plotting a speedy route to the stars is not easy. See article.

g AFTERMATH - The human race could be devastated if aliens were to learn of our existence and venture to Earth, warned British scientist Stephen Hawking on Sunday. But how could extraterrestrials really invade Earth? See article.

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The White House has officially confirmed that aliens aboard UFOs have not landed on the planet, nor have they contacted the human race.

In a response to two petitions posted to the White House Web site, the U.S. government said that "there was no credible evidence of extraterrestrial presence here on Earth."

Unfortunately (or fortunately?) for UFO conspiracy theorists, White House officials went even farther. "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, a member of the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House, in a recent, though undated, blog post. "In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye."

Larson's statement was a response to two petitions, requesting that the Obama Administration disclose the government's knowledge of and communications with extraterrestrial beings, and/or acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.

Larson also highlighted efforts to search for evidence of alien life, such as SETI, the Kepler spacecraft, and the Mars Science Laboratory to be part of the next Mars rover, Curiosity.

Unfortunately, UFO watching sites such as The Object Report or Paranormal News did not themselves report or comment on the news, leaving one to wonder whether they supported the government's explanation, or considered it part of dozens of ongoing conspiracy theories. According to former National Aeronautics and Space Administration Data and Photo Control Department manager, Ken Johnston, who worked for the space agency's Lunar Receiving Laboratory during the Apollo missions, NASA, a government-funded agency, discovered evidence of alien cities on the Moon.

But Larson also held out hope.

"A last point: Many scientists and mathematicians have looked with a statistical mindset at the question of whether life likely exists beyond Earth and 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," Larson wrote.

"Many have also noted, 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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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 STARS - What is the habitable zone for the famous nearby star Altair?

g ABODES - New research questions the idea that water and other elements were added to the Earth late in its formation by impacts with icy comets and meteorites. The finding may cause scientists to rethink theories about the origin of life on our planet. See article.

g MESSAGE - Here's a transcript of a famous address Philip Morrison gave in 1960 examining "what sort of communication channel is open" between Earth and extraterrestrials. See article.

g COSMICUS - Here's a site contains a number of space colony images inspired by Gerard O'Neill's work in the 1970s. It also contains links to a number of Web resources concerned with space colonies and the utilization of space resources. See article.

g LEARNING - A research team has discovered a part of the brain crucial for counting and performing arithmetic. The new finding could lead to a better understanding of dyscalculia, a psychological disorder that makes it nearly impossible to deal with numbers, much less complicated math. See article.

g IMAGINING - Science fiction authors produce a lot of very strange critters. In the desperate dash to be different, many go way overboard to invent fantastic, outlandish species unlike anything anyone has ever seen. It's an admirable expression of their artistic abilities, but there's an inherent problem: They almost always lose the reader along the way. Sure, it sounds ultra-cool to have a whole herd of 80-foot quasi-limbed orb-stasis beings, but unless you draw me a picture of these things, the reader often has no idea what you're talking about. However, if you write that your alien has four wings, 10 eyes and looks a little like a kangaroo, the reader is right there with you. Most readers need at least something familiar to draw on for their imagination, or they get lost. See article.

g AFTERMATH - In the last quarter of the 20th century, an international social movement - Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence - has emerged which advocates an attempt to achieve communication with extraterrestrial intelligence, and many of its most active members have been leading scientists. Modest efforts to detect radio signals from intelligent extraterrestrials already have been made, both under government aegis and privately funded, and the technical means for a more vigorous search have been developed. If a CETI project were successful, linguists would suddenly have one or more utterly alien languages to study, and some consideration of linguistic issues is a necessary preparation for it. See article.

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Welcome! "Mysterious Life form" tracks the latest discoveries and musing in the several elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g STARS - A huge burst seen 31 verve ago may hold close been the true cry of the youngest black break regularly observed, which may possibly approval researchers recognize how black holes are inherent and innovation. See article.g Brain - Australia's first country viewed comets as portents of adversary, a new hole of Native astronomy has found. See article.g Memo - Developed extraterrestrial civilizations which categorization wide-reaching use of the amalgamation wood equipment of their concentrated star and planetary system hold close recurrent potentially clear characteristics. A circumstellar nuclear wood molecular effusion cloud, the be in the lead clear, promptly dissociates and neutralizes to the tiny ground state, permitting the gratitude of hydrogen and tritium hyperfine transition radio defiance at 1420 MHz and 1516 MHz, each. The inconsequential manifest carefully selected of undemanding tiny ground-state tritium suggests that its hyperfine line, the "tritium waterspout" centered in the radio SETI "waterhole" band, is ideal for interstellar point and sophisticated SETI searches. Additional realistic observables of finer civilizations allow redshifted neutrino reflection sources, an exaggerated radio spectrum, strange blackbody radiation, fission misuse assimilation defiance, Doppler and solar corpselike anomalies, and important captivating fields. See article. This article is from 1985.Work out this blogger's books

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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 -Venus Express is being used to observe the Earth from its orbit around Venus. Astronomers hope that the data will help develop techniques to search for habitable planets around distant stars. See article.

g LIFE - Developing strategies for finding life on other planets and in extreme environments on Earth will be the focus of Penn State's new astrobiology initiative under a five-year grant from NASA's Astrobiology Institute for "Signatures of Life from Earth and Beyond." See article.

g MESSAGE -It's not easy to look for life somewhere other than Earth. First, scientists searching for life in space have to come up with a working definition of 'extraterrestrial life'. Next, they need to develop a strategy identifying places and methods for their search. To make matters more complicated, all of this has to be done without contaminating the search site with life from Earth or contaminating Earth with potential extraterrestrial life. See article.

g COSMICUS -Kevin Knuth has a laboratory in the physics department of the University at Albany that is filled with LEGOs. The bricks are relatively cheap and can be used to rapidly prototype a robot's body. Knuth's robots are being programmed to solve such problems as mapping complex terrain. See article.

g LEARNING -Three young researchers are starting exciting new fellowships in UK Universities dedicated to exploring and uncovering the mysteries of our Solar System. See article.

g IMAGINING -Venus's battery-acid clouds might very well support microbial life - like the "extremophile" microorganisms that Earth scientists have found thriving near volcano outflows. See article. Note: This article is from 2004.

g AFTERMATH - Here's a brief but interesting piece: "The Day After Contact: Forecasting Reactions to Extraterrestrial Contact". Note: This article is from 1999.

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For years, the SETI program (SETI stands for "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence") has been scouring every corner of the globe for proof of alien life. Now they may have found it. So why aren't they releasing it?

According to The Register, alien aficionados have been flooding the SETI Institute with e-mails and phone calls chastizing them after allegations were made on the radio show "Coast to Coast with Art Bell" that SETI found some proof, but hasn't released it to the public.

Professional SETI watcher Steven Greer, the CEO of Space Energy Access Systems, claimed that insiders told him SETI found "high concentrations of signals from space, and that another organization stepped in to block those signals."

"They were apparently searching in a spectrum or in an area... where they hit the mother lode," Greer said. "The signals were so numerous that they began to have their systems externally jammed by some sort of human agency that did not want them to continue receiving those signals."

Source: fromatlantistosphinx.blogspot.com

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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 STARS - What is the habitable zone for the nearby star YZ Ceti?

g ABODES - Researchers have found a new mineral, named Brownleeite, in material that likely came from a comet. The mineral was discovered in interstellar dust grains captured at high altitude in the Earth's atmosphere. See article.

g MESSAGE - Similar to SETI - the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, where one listens for messages sent to Earth - METI means "Messaging to ETI": Sending both scientific and artistic messages to the stars. So, METI Art represents not Art about Space, but Art for Space. In other words, METI Art is the creative work of Earth destined for inclusion in the Planetary Consciousnesses of supposed extraterrestrial civilizations. See article.

g LEARNING - Here's a great resource for middle school science teachers; "Life on Other Planets in the Solar System." See article.

g IMAGINING - In Ridley Scott's 1979 slimy monster masterpiece "Alien," the extraterrestrial life form discovered by Sigourney Weaver and crew goes through two startlingly different phases after it hatches. Is such a change during the life of an animal mere sci fi license? Not really. In fact, many earthlings go through similar drastic changes in form. Note: This article is from March 2001. See article.

g AFTERMATH - The scientific discussion of the evolution of life in the universe raises some key philosophical and theological issues Will life and intelligence be found throughout the universe, or will it turn out to be exceedingly rare? Will intelligent life be capable of both rationality and moral agency? Will evolutionary biology determine its moral content or will it merely bequeath intelligent life with moral capacity, leaving moral content to be determined independently of biology? If moral agency evolves, will these species inevitably exhibit moral failure, or is our generic human experience of moral failure strictly the result of our particular evolution, leaving us to expect there to be other civilizations that are entirely benign? The discussion of these issues, though largely hypothetical, can offer insight into the theological and cultural implications of the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence as well into a better understanding of the human condition. See article.

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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 - An Italian team of astronomers has observed the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst that is the farthest known ever. With a measured redshift of 6.3, the light from this very remote astronomical source has taken 12,700 million years to reach us. It is thus seen when the universe was less than 900 million years old, or less than 7 percent its present age. See article.

g ABODES - New gullies that did not exist in mid-2002 have appeared on a Martian sand dune. That's just one of the surprising discoveries that have resulted from the extended life of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which this month began its ninth year in orbit around Mars. Boulders tumbling down a Martian slope left tracks that weren't there two years ago. New impact craters formed since the 1970s suggest changes to age-estimating models. And for three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars' south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress. See article. For more, see "Mars: A history of false impressions".

g LIFE - One of the remaining challenges for evolutionary developmental studies of mammals, whose evolution is best known from their teeth, is how their tooth shape is altered during development. Researchers of the University of Helsinki together with their Japanese colleagues from the University of Kioto now propose a 'balance of induction' mechanism directing the placement of tooth shape features called cusps. See articles. For related story about teeth, see "Nuclear Tests Leave Mark in Teeth, Reveal Age".

g INTELLIGENCE - Scientists have now found physiological reasons why you can become forgetful or, even worse, rude as you age. See article.

g MESSAGE - How might we detect an extraterrestrial messenger probe already in the solar system? See article. Note: This article is from 1983.

g COSMICUS - Jack Farmer of Arizona State University is an astrobiologist whose attention is often focused on Mars. Farmer is a longtime member of a community of scientists working to understand both the geologic history of Mars and the planet's potential to support life. At the recent Earth System Processes II conference, Farmer gave a talk on the current state of understanding about Mars: what we know and what we'd like to know. In this, the third and final part of a three-part series, he outlines the options for future Mars exploration. See article.

g LEARNING - Each time the effort to introduce creationism into classrooms starts up again, so does legislation aimed against evolution. Learn about the rash of recent cases, plus a look at historically pertinent court cases. 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. See reviews.

g AFTERMATH - Here's an intriguing paper published earlier this year and translated from German for Astrosociology.com: "Futurological Reflections on the Confrontation of Mankind with an Extraterrestrial Civilization".

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