Category: Extraterrestrial life
U.S. Mars exploration put off till 2030s
| March 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
“Two ambitious missions that NASA had hoped to launch to Mars, in 2016 and 2018, will be canceled.” more
Current search for life on Mars features dramatically reduced expectations
| March 8, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
If we narrow our expectations to specifics, we can learn something, whether or not we find what we are looking for. more
SETI’s 1972 Wow! Signal – a 40-year retrospective
| February 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“I’m not saying that it definitely was an extraterrestrial broadcast; there’s no proof of that. … it was a tug on the cosmic fishing line.” more
US Mars exploration budget takes hit
| February 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“Mars exploration taking the single biggest hit, down from $587m this year to $360m next year – a 39% reduction.” more
A bureaucracy for responding to space aliens?
| February 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
Bureaucrats apparently do have a protocol for what to do if they do contact us: more
Latest super-Earth is practically inhabited already …
| February 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“… with today’s technology, we could send a robotic probe out there, and within a few hundred years, it could be sending back picture postcards.” more
Extraterrestrial life: Shaking off some of the Mars dust
| February 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
“This implies that liquid water has been on the surface of Mars for far too short a time for life to maintain a foothold on the surface.” more
Peer review: Co-authors of disputed arsenic-based life paper have vanished into the woodwork?
| February 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News, Origin Of Life |
“It appears they bought and fueled the bus; put bright lights and banners on it; cheered as Wolfe-Simon drove it a bit wildly honking the horn; and have now thrown her under it.” more
Space aliens: The reason they avoid us is that we exist and they don’t – mathematician
| January 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“… we don’t know enough about how life got started on Earth to be able to recognize alien life, even if it were staring us in the face.” more
Astrophysicist: Super Earths are more attractive to life than Earth is
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“These are solid planets of rock and ice between 1 and 10 times the mass of the Earth. ” more
UK biologist Steve Jones: “Life is no more than a local patch of order.”
| January 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Extraterrestrial life, News |
Also, he says, Hawking is wrong to think life is widespread in the galaxy more
Russian scientist claims to have spotted life on Venus. One lump or two?
| January 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
” … the planet has never been considered a serious target of research into the possibility of extraterrestrial life.” more
Nature: Arsenic-based life couldn’t be replicated in different lab’s study
| January 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News, Origin Of Life |
“I fear that there will be a prolonged slow rearguard battle of its advocates until the whole story will finally be forgotten, rather than an outright retraction.” more
Can we distinguish human v. natural excavations?
| January 16, 2012 | Posted by DLH under Culture, Design inference, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design |
Large geometric shapes are being discovered beneath the Amazon forest. Have the discoverers evaluated their origins correctly? If so, why? Is there any way to distinguish between artifacts caused by human and extraterrestrial agents? Once Hidden by Forest, Carvings in Land Attest to Amazon’s Lost World By SIMON ROMERO January 14, 2012 RIO BRANCO, Brazil… more
Has SETI found something at last?
| January 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“(O)ur analyses have generated a few ‘hits,’ but all are undoubtedly examples of terrestrial radio frequency interference” caused by radio signals broadcast here on Earth, …” more
Astrophysicist punctures balloon: “There is a world of difference between habitable planets and inhabited planets.”
| January 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
Pretty transgressive stuff in a world where learned profs assure the world, “THEY just gotta be out there! Otherwise, we’d be unique.” more
Charles Krauthammer: “Intelligence may be the most cursed faculty in the entire universe”
| January 2, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Extraterrestrial life, News |
“In other words, this silent universe is conveying not a flattering lesson about our uniqueness but a tragic story about our destiny.” more
Life on Mars: It works if it is mostly underground?
| December 16, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
We’d settle for a postage-stamp size bit of evidence. more
Unambiguous evidence for water on Mars?
| December 8, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
A long time ago Here. more
SETI’s hunt for intelligent life goes on regardless
| December 7, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“We’re just extremely excited to be back on the air today.” more