Archive for the ‘alien life’ category: Page 112
Feb 13, 2017
A Sci-Fi Short Film HD: “At the End”
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: alien life, entertainment
Enjoy this Sci-Fi short film created by the talented Jason J. Whitmore! Earth’s days are numbered when a nearby star goes supernova. Seizing the opportunity, an alien race has offered humanity a deal: Be our slaves or be left to die. As one couple struggles toward the last escaping ship, they grapple with the cost of sacrificing their freedom for their survival.
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Feb 13, 2017
Proxima Centauri b And Most Other Exo-Planets Are Likely Uninhabitable
Posted by Bruce Dorminey in category: alien life
Bad news for anyone who thinks Earth-mass planets must automatically harbor life.
New study says nearby earth-mass planet Proxima Centauri b may not be habitable after all. The implications for astrobiology aren’t good.
Jan 30, 2017
NASA Designs Promising New Test For Extraterrestrial Life
Posted by Bruce Dorminey in category: alien life
JPL announces a promising new means of detecting life in situ; in our own solar system.
NASA’s JPL is keen to try a promising new chemical method of detecting life in the frozen oceans of Europa or Enceladus.
Jan 24, 2017
Is alien life EVERYWHERE? Claims it has become ‘fabric of the universe’
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: alien life, quantum physics
Interesting hypothesis…
Despite all that scientists now know, much of our universe still remains a mystery.
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Jan 11, 2017
Could Dark Streaks in Venus’ Clouds Be Signs of Alien Life?
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: alien life
Russian and U.S. scientists are exploring a mission that may end up looking for signs of alien life in Venus’ sulfur clouds.
Jan 10, 2017
Fast Radio Bursts from Extragalactic Light Sails
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: alien life, engineering
Abstract: We examine the possibility that Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) originate from the activity of extragalactic civilizations. Our analysis shows that beams used for powering large light sails could yield parameters that are consistent with FRBs. The characteristic diameter of the beam emitter is estimated through a combination of energetic and engineering constraints, and both approaches intriguingly yield a similar result which is on the scale of a large rocky planet. Moreover, the optimal frequency for powering the light sail is shown to be similar to the detected FRB frequencies. These ‘coincidences’ lend some credence to the possibility that FRBs might be artificial in origin. Other relevant quantities, such as the typical mass of the light sail, and the angular velocity of the beam, are also derived. By using the FRB occurrence rate, we infer upper bounds on the rate of FRBs from extragalactic civilizations in a typical galaxy. The possibility of detecting fainter signals is briefly discussed, and the wait time for an exceptionally bright FRB event in the Milky Way is estimated.
Jan 10, 2017
The Hunt For Aliens is a Grassroots Movement Funded by Billionaires
Posted by Carse Peel in category: alien life
The search for aliens has become a grassroots movement for billionaires.
The last few years demonstrate that extraterrestrial research has finally moved into the mainstream — and money is pouring in fast.
Aside from a strange blip in the 1950s and early 1960s, the search for extraterrestrial life has primarily taken place at society’s fringes. Public figures have not historically risked their reputations advocating the search for alien life. And within the scientific community, the subject was largely (and understandably) sidelined until recent years, when telescopes that could detect new planets and instruments that found the ingredients for life on other worlds allowed serious-minded researchers to pass the laugh test.
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Jan 4, 2017
Astronomers Pinpointed the Location of Multiple Weird Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: alien life
Fast radio bursts, powerful pulses of radio energy of unknown cosmic origin, are a source of endless fascination to astronomers and alien conspiracy theory fodder to everybody else. But while most FRBs discovered to date are one-off events—a single chirp in the interstellar void, if you will—these phenomena got more interesting last year when astronomers discovered the very first FRB signal that repeats. Now, they’ve pinpointed its location.
Jan 4, 2017
Fast radio bursts: Scientists find the source of the most mysterious message in the universe
Posted by Carse Peel in category: alien life
A mysterious signal coming from deep in the universe has finally been traced to its source.
Fast Radio Bursts, or FRBs, have only been heard 18 times and have been a puzzle to scientists since they were detected in 2007. Nobody knows where they could be coming from or how they might be triggered, with speculation ranging from a huge star, jets of material shooting out of a black hole – or even aliens.
FRBs are powerful but very short radio waves, which last no more than a millisecond.