Another Monkey (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Today is the second day of the 2009 Sideshow Gathering . But it's also the first annual Carl Sagan Day. http://www.carlsaganday.com/ This November 7, 2009, we will celebrate the life and contributions of the great astronomer, author, and philosopher, Carl Sagan, on the 75th anniversary of his birth. Carl Sagan was a Professor of Astronomy and Space Science and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary...
BizMediaScience (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
For those of you who might have not been watching, SETI -- the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- celebrated its 50th birthday on 19 Sept 09. Fifty years and a month or so ago Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison published Searching for Interstellar Communication in Nature. How far have we gone in those fifty plus years? Excellent question that. When Susan and I sit on our backporch we can...
Alien Life (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation . Here's today's news: g Abodes - Researchers have discovered connections between volcanoes and a deadly ice age that occurred 450 million years ago. The study reports that the volcanoes may have release massive amounts of carbon dioxide, causing global warming. However, when...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
In 2015, Voyager 1 will become the first man-made object to leave the solar system Photo: NASA From The Telegraph: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, is 50 years old this month. We look at 10 memorable events in the search for life on other planets. SETI was founded in response to a September 1959 Nature journal article, “Searching for Interstellar Communication”, which...
Alien Life (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation . Here's today's news: g Stars - What is the habitable zone for the nearby star GJ 588 ? g Abodes - Giant gas planets that orbit close to their parent star could harbour moons the size of Earth, say researchers, but the possibility of finding life on them would be remote....
Nature (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Despite the long odds against success, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has come a long way.
Alien Life (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation . Here's today's news: g Abodes - In the early days of the solar system, our sun would not have been hot enough to keep the Earth from freezing. However, liquid water was present on the early Earth. Now, scientists believe that greenhouse gasses may have played a role in keeping...
Alien Life (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation . Here's today's news: g Stars - Results of the first Einstein@Home search for continuous wave sources in LIGO S5 data have been published in Physical Review D. The project’s objective is to find the first physical evidence of one of Einstein’s greatest predictions...
Green Options (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
Gliese 581 d. Such a catchy name eh? You probably have never heard of it. It is 20 light years away, but in late April 2009 new observations by the original discovery team concluded that the planet is within the habitable zone where liquid water, and therefore, life, could exist. Some of you may have heard of SETI . SETI or Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, conducts legitimate science research,...
Alien Life (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation . Here's today's news: g Stars - What is the habitable zone for the nearby star GJ 338 B ? g Abodes - NASA scientists are using high-tech 'spider' robots to monitor volcanoes on Earth. The low-cost sensors provide real-time monitoring of one of Earth's most challenging environments....
Alien Life (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation . Here's today's news: g Stars - What is the habitable zone for the nearby star system GJ 752 AB ? g Abodes - Space shuttle plumes point the finger at a comet as the culprit behind a 1908 Siberian space impact. See article . g Life - Scientists have long believed that animal...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
• I bumped into a Labour MP the other night, who told me that No 10 really has become a bunker, with the prime minister in complete denial of the outside world. He had been among a group of eight Labour MPs who had been to see Gordon Brown. One was Glenda Jackson, who ventured the view that things were looking very grim all round. "No, no, no!" said the great helmsman. "Growth!...
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
"The idea that we are the only intelligent creatures in a cosmos of a hundred billion galaxies is so preposterous that there are very few astronomers today who would take it seriously. It is safest to assume therefore, that they are out there and to consider the manner in which this may impinge upon human society." - Arthur C. Clarke, physicist and author of "2001: A Space Odyssey"...
Astrobiology Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/23/2009
After five decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has failed to find any alien signals. SETI researchers are still optimistic that we will one day find evidence for intelligent life somewhere in our galaxy. A new book by SETI scientist, Seth Shostak, reviews the history, the controversies and the reasons for continuing the search.
Mixotricha (Free subscription) | 03/15/2009
Gaming for the sake of science ! Seti@home : Search for extraterrestrial intelligence, was the first and most popular scientific calculation program that makes use of those millions of pc’s doing nothing. Now there is fold.it, a sort of game where you have to fold proteins. This is a very complex matter and David Baker invented [...]
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