Archive for the ‘alien life’ category: Page 136
Dec 18, 2015
Meteor Fireball Terrorizes Georgia Residents: NASA Confirms Asteroid Chunk Flying Near Atlanta, Other Sightings
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: alien life, existential risks
Don’t panic.
Unless the dolphins start leaving the planet.
At that point, by all mean panic.
Dec 8, 2015
Sending humans to Mars could uncover a disturbing truth to one of life’s greatest mysteries
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: alien life
If humankind successfully lands people on the surface of Mars, we could discover an important clue about the origins of life on Earth — one of the greatest scientific mysteries in human history.
A theory called panspermia, which dates back to the 5th century BC, posits that certain life forms can hop between planets, and even star systems, to fertilize them with life.
Following this theory, some scientists suspect that the first life on Earth never formed on our planet at all, but instead, hitched a ride inside planetary fragments from Mars that were flung into space after a powerful impact and eventually fell to Earth. We could be the aliens!
Dec 8, 2015
New US space mining law to spark interplanetary gold rush
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: alien life, materials
Flashing some interplanetary gold bling and sipping “space water” might sound far-fetched, but both could soon be reality, thanks to a new US law that legalizes cosmic mining.
In a first, President Barack Obama signed legislation at the end of November that allows commercial extraction of minerals and other materials, including water, from asteroids and the moon.
That could kick off an extraterrestrial gold rush, backed by a private aeronautics industry that is growing quickly and cutting the price of commercial space flight.
Dec 4, 2015
More information discovered about possible ‘alien’ radio signals
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: alien life
New data about mysterious mathematical signals from deep space called ‘fast radio bursts’ offer new clues about their origin.
By: Bryan Nelson
Nov 30, 2015
China Searches For Aliens? World’s Largest Radio Telescope To Explore Far Reaches Of Space In 2016
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: alien life
Will FAST be able to communicate with aliens? China will search for extraterrestrials in outer space when the world’s largest radio telescope is complete in 2016.
Nov 23, 2015
There’s a mission to this mysterious water world that could detect the first alien life
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: alien life
In February, NASA announced that it was investing in a $2 billion mission to Europa — a tiny moon of Jupiter that is one of the most likely places for life beyond Earth.
Their spacecraft, called the Europa Multi-Flyby Mission, would orbit Jupiter, taking frequent passes by Europa for a close look at its surface.
But there is another important piece of the puzzle that NASA is exploring, and in a recent conversation with US Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), Ars Technica’s senior space editor, Eric Berger, reported the details — it’s a lander and it could be the key to discovering the first extraterrestrial life.
Nov 16, 2015
Researchers suggest that the universe could be a computer simulation: Is it possible?
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: alien life, computing, robotics/AI, virtual reality
It‘s older, but interesting!
The year is 2050 and super-intelligent robots have emerged as the masters of Earth. Unfortunately, you have no idea of that fact because we are immersed in a computer simulation set decades ago. Everything you see and touch has now been created and programmed by machines that use mankind for their own benefit. This radical theory, demonstrated in numerous books and science fiction films, has been, and is currently regarded by science as possible; Moreover, scientists are taking this theory to a cosmic level and even believe that if only one extraterrestrial civilization in the universe go the technological level to “emulate” an entire “multiverse,” then even our probes and space telescopes, which are out there exploring the universe, belong to that “creepy simulation.”
Nov 1, 2015
‘Alien Megastructure’ Mystery May Soon Be Solved
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: alien life
The mystery behind a strangely dimming star could soon be solved.
Astronomers around the world are keeping a close eye on the star KIC 8462852, which has dimmed dramatically numerous times over the past few years, dropping in brightness by up to 22 percent. These big dips have spurred speculation that the star may be surrounded by some type of alien megastructure — a hypothesis that will be put to the test if and when KIC 8462852 dims again.
“As long as one of those events occurs again, we should be able to catch it in the act, and then we’ll definitely be able to figure out what we’re seeing,” said Jason Wright, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State University. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Alien Life]
