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Encyclopedia Galactica: How Carl Sagan helped turn an alien obsession into iconic space art
How might human civilization be recorded in a galactic encyclopedia? Encyclopedia Galactica is the compilation of a series of paintings by award-winning artist Jon Lomberg, in collaboration with the late astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan. Below is the story of Encyclopedia Galactica, told by Jon Lomberg himself.
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New SETI plan: Detect alien starships powered by black holes
To detect alien civilizations, astronomers need to make some assumptions about the forms they might take — and the traces their technological artifacts could leave behind. An outrageous new paper by a mathematician at Kansas State University does just that, positing that a sufficiently advanced alien civilization would likely build starships powered by the radiation thrown off by small black holes — and speculating that astronomers could use gamma telescopes to spot evidence of these black hole starships.
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A Physicist Has Proposed a Pretty Depressing Explanation For Why We Never See Aliens
The Universe is so unimaginably big, and it's positively teeming with an almost infinite supply of potentially life-giving worlds. So where the heck is everybody?
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Can Intelligent Machines Find Intelligent Aliens?
There is a strange forest in an otherwise unremarkable stretch of empty land north of San Francisco, where 42 steel trees sweep their parabolic canopies across the skies like industrial sunflowers. It’s quiet here, at the Allen Telescope Array, but the silence is deceiving. Just ask the trees, which are condemned to listen to a shrieking cosmos so that they might hear an extraterrestrial whisper—a whisper so faint that the sound of a snowflake falling to the earth is deafening by comparison. The astronomers who walk among these trees are preoccupied by the Big Question: What will the whisperer say? Will it be a greeting? A warning?
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Navy Pilot Who Filmed a UFO Speaks: ‘It Wasn’t Behaving by the Laws of Physics’
In the 15 years since Chad Underwood recorded a bizarre and erratic UFO — now called “the Tic Tac,” a name Underwood himself came up with — from the infrared camera on the left wing of his F/A-18 Super Hornet, he’s become a flight instructor, a civilian employee in the aerospace industry, and a father. But he has not yet spoken publicly about what he saw that day, even now, two years after his video made the front page of the New York Times.
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Our Attitude Toward Aliens Proves We Still Think We’re Special
One summer’s day in 1950, the great Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi was having lunch with the physicists Edward Teller, Emil Konopinski, and Herbert York at Los Alamos when the conversation turned to a flood of recent UFO sightings all over the United States. There were also, coincidentally, reports of trashcans going missing in New York City at the time.
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It's official: Search for ET must be taken seriously
Astronomers want more public funds to help search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
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10 Ways Our Search For Alien Life Is Evolving
In 1950, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked his colleagues at lunch, “Where is everybody?” His question became known as the Fermi Paradox. He wanted to know why we haven’t met any aliens if there are so many habitable planets in the universe.
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What Are The Odds Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life Emerging Beyond Our Planet?
The Universe is so huge it seems unlikely we are the only intelligent species. There must be intelligent extraterrestrial life living on alien worlds we have not yet discovered. A recent study has examined the likelihood of life and intelligence beyond our solar system. We know from the geological record that life started relatively quickly, as soon our planet’s environment was stable enough to support it.
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36 Alien Civilizations In The Milky Way? The Science Behind A Ridiculous Headline
Is there intelligent life out there in the Milky Way beyond our own Solar System? If so, how many alien civilizations are there presently within our own galaxy, and how far away is the closest one? It's a question that's mystified humanity for as long as we've looked up at the stars and wondered about perhaps the greatest of all the existential questions we could possibly ask, "are we alone?"
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Aliens Likely Annihilated Themselves Through Progress, Suggests New Extraterrestrial Research
There are many people who strongly believe that aliens are real and they are living somewhere far from the blue planet, Earth. But a new scientific study suggested that such civilizations destroyed themselves through progress.
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Noah Hawley is making an Alien TV series for FX and Hulu
Fargo and Legion showrunner Noah Hawley is stepping into the world of Alien with a new show at FX. This marks the first TV series based on the popular movie franchise, according to FX chairman John Landgraf, who announced the show at Disney’s investor event today. Disney acquired the rights to the franchise when it acquired 21st Century Fox in 2019. Not much is known about the show, except for a brief description that referred to it as a “scary thrill ride set not too far in the future here on Earth.”
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Alien Radio Signal From Outer Space Discovered
Scientists hold their breath as a mysterious signal blips across their radar. The signal is coming from outer space. Is this an alien life form
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Are Human Beings Created By Aliens
Out of thousands of possible ways to assume how life on earth began, one of the possibilities remains that the life was created by an advanced alien civilization. As far as we have understood till now, the Universe was created about 13.7 billion years ago. Billions of stars and planets must have existed, way before the creation of the earth. Our earth was formed just 4.5 billion years ago.
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How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously
On May 9, 2001, Steven M. Greer took the lectern at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C., in pursuit of the truth about unidentified flying objects. Greer, an emergency-room physician in Virginia and an outspoken ufologist, believed that the government had long withheld from the American people its familiarity with alien visitations.
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Perspective | Contacting aliens could end all life on earth. Let’s stop trying.
Whatever the UFO report says, it’s time to set some rules for talking to extraterrestrials
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If we ever encounter aliens, they will resemble AI and not little green martians
I’m an astronomer at the Seti Institute, a non-profit research organization in California’s Silicon Valley. My colleagues and I look for extraterrestrial life, including intelligent beings – or in the vernacular, aliens. It’s exciting times for people like me, because extra-terrestrial life is being widely discussed now in the lead-up to the Pentagon’s highly anticipated report on so-called unexplained aerial phenomena.
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Scientists identify 29 planets where aliens could observe Earth
For centuries, Earthlings have gazed at the heavens and wondered about life among the stars. But as humans hunted for little green men, the extraterrestrials might have been watching us back. In new research, astronomers have drawn up a shortlist of nearby star systems where any inquisitive inhabitants on orbiting planets would be well placed to spot life on Earth.
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New way to scan for life signs remotely could help discover alien life
Scanning alien worlds for signs of life is a sci-fi trope up there with faster-than-light travel and setting phasers to stun. But it could become a reality, according to a team of researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland who have pioneered a technique that uses reflected light to spot living organisms.
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NASA Administrator: 'Are we alone? Personally, I don't think we are' - CNN Video
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson tells CNN's Pamela Brown that he has read the classified version of the US intelligence report on the series of UFO sightings by Navy pilots and others, and that he feels that we may not be alone in this galaxy.
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