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Stephen Hawking Helps Launch Massive Search for E.T.
A new $100 million, 10-year search for intelligent life in the universe was announced today (July 20) by famed scientist Stephen Hawking and other prominent researchers.
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Search for extraterrestrial intelligence gets a $100-million boost
Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announces most comprehensive hunt for alien life.
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Stephen Hawking announces $100 million hunt for alien life
Funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Millner, the initiative will give the search for intelligent life a major boost.
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10 Hypothetical Forms Of Life
In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, some have been accused of harboring a sense of “carbon chauvinism,” expecting other life-forms in the universe to be made of the same biochemical building blocks as we are and tailoring our searches accordingly. Here are 10 examples of biological and nonbiological systems that stretch the definition of “life.”
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Ancient Aliens Debunked [2012]
Ancient Aliens Debunked is a 3 hour refutation of the theories proposed on the History Channel series Ancient Aliens. It is essentially a point by point critique of the "ancient astronaut theory" which has been proposed by people like Erich von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin as well as many others.
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Are we looking for ET all wrong?
Is looking for radio transmissions in space like claiming the lack of smoke signals means there are no modern humans? “[W]hat Fermi immediately realized was that the aliens have had more than enough time to pepper the Galaxy with their presence. But looking around, he didn’t see any clear indication that they’re out and about. This prompted Fermi to ask what was (to him) an obvious question: ‘where is everybody?’”
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Ridley Scott Says Prometheus Sequels Will Reveal Who Created Aliens
Ridley Scott has been talking about his plans for Prometheus sequel Alien: Paradise Lost, stating that it will be followed by another sequel, which will then “back into Alien 1" and answer the biggest question of them all. First up, The Martian helmer expressed his regret at not taking charge of the sequels first time around, saying “I’m trying to keep this for myself. I let the other one [Alien] get away from me – I shouldn’t have…
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Where Are All The Aliens? What Is Fermi’s Paradox?
At some point in our lives, we gaze up at the night sky and wonder if we are all alone in the universe. With trillions and trillions of stars up there, most with very their own solar systems, one would think that there is virtually an unlimited number of chances for the spark of life to kick off. We don’t even have to look to the stars to wonder if life originated on another world, we can look in our very own backyard — Mars and Jupiter’s moon Europa both offer a tantalizing chance...
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Alien life could thrive in ancient star clusters
Densely packed stars might allow civilizations to survive for many billions of years.
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Mysterious Martian "Cauliflower" May Be the Latest Hint of Alien Life
The hunt for signs of life on Mars has been on for decades, and so far scientists have found only barren dirt and rocks. Now a pair of astronomers thinks that strangely shaped minerals inside a Martian crater could be the clue everyone has been waiting for. In 2008, scientists announced that NASA’s Spirit rover had discovered deposits of a mineral called opaline silica inside Mars's Gusev crater. That on its own is not as noteworthy as...
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If We Want to Find Aliens, We Should Search for the Ones Searching for Us
A pair of astrophysicists have proposed a new strategy for searching for intelligent extraterrestrial life: point our telescopes in the direction where, if life exists, it may have already found us. “We’re mostly interested in the answer to the question: where in the sky are they?” said René Heller, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany, and the co-author of a paper detailing this strategy published online Tuesday in Astrobiology.
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Hawking: We Probably Won't Find Aliens Soon
Will humanity find intelligent alien life anytime soon? Probably not, according to theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. Hawking made the prediction yesterday (April 12) during the Breakthrough Starshot announcement in New York City. At the news conference, Hawking, along with Russian billionaire investor Yuri Milner and a group of scientists, detailed a new project that aims to send a multitude of tiny, wafer-size spaceships into space to the neighboring star system Alpha Centauri.
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What Do Scientists Do When They Think They Might Have Intercepted Alien Signals?
Imagine that you’re an astronomer, working in your lab, day in and day out, analyzing signals from space. Waves of energy pass through, you measure them, you calculate what they mean—what stars, asteroids, quasars, black holes, and planets are doing very, very far away from here. One day, a strange signal registers on your instruments. You check that it’s not an equipment error. You start running through possible explanations, all the obvious ones and the less obvious ones. Nothing fits.
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Making Contact
Thousands swarmed the high desert like locusts, clad in Birkenstocks and bandanas, cut-offs and tank tops. Their skin burnt cherry red, they poured out of trucks and Toyotas, sweating under the oppressive hundred and six-degree heat, scuttling through sand and rock, not in search of a shady refuge or a sip of water — but to find salvation. Aging boomers, bearded Mad Max types, hippies, burners, little old ladies and medical doctors, ravers — they all shared a common vision.
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Tom DeLonge says that he quit Blink-182 to investigate UFOs
Former Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge has said that he quit the band to focus on investigating the apparent threat of UFOs. DeLonge quit Blink-182 in January 2015, and has since released 'Sekret Machines', a book that blends sci-fi elements with real life accounts of purported UFO sightings and alien abductions. But he now says that UFOs are a 'national security issue', and claims that he was unable to combine his investigations with guitar duties in Blink-182.
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Alien Interpreters: How Linguists Would Talk to Extraterrestrials
In the upcoming sci-fi drama "Arrival," several mysterious spacecraft touch down around the planet, and humanity is faced with how to approach—and eventually communicate—with these extraterrestrial visitors. In the film, a team of experts is assembled to investigate, and among the chosen individuals is a linguist, played by actress Amy Adams. Though the story is rooted in science fiction, it does tackle a very real challenge: How do you communicate with someone—or how do you learn that individual's language—when you have no intermediary language in common?
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What ‘Star Trek’ May Have Right—and Wrong—About Alien Life
Will we ever salute Vulcans or cuddle tribbles? An astrobiologist explores the latest thinking on the forms alien life might really take. By Andrew Fazekas.
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An Astrolinguist Explains How to Talk to Aliens
The president of METI International weighs in on the science and fiction of ‘Arrival.’ By Daniel Oberhaus.
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How Will Our Religions Handle the Discovery of Alien Life?
What would your priest, rabbi, or imam say if we discovered alien life? By David A. Weintraub.
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