So Close, Yet So Far: Scientist Guarantees We WILL Find Extraterrestrial Life…
Friday, 15th June 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Offbeat
Tags: 2000, Aliens, big, cosmos, extraterrestrial, kids, science, Seth Shostack, seti, TED
Written by: Jeff Nau
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Could we be closer than we think to finding the Klingons/Zentraedi/Engineers/whatever seemingly inevitably hostile alien life might be out there? According to SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Life) Institute scientist Seth Shostak’s recent TED speech, the answer is yes. And depending on your lifespan, not so much.
According to Shostak,there’s a few reasons which guarantee humanity finding ET somewhere out there. Because of the increase in speed and improvement of telescopic technology, as well as the vast amount of habitable real estate (in a universe hundreds of billions of light years wide, or just our own galaxy) the chances that we’ll find it are getting better and better every day. Continue reading “So Close, Yet So Far: Scientist Guarantees We WILL Find Extraterrestrial Life…” »
DNA Found on Meteorites Came from Space!?
Tuesday, 9th August 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Technology
Tags: DNA, extraterrestrial, meteorites, science, space
Written by: R Bryant Francis
No, we did not find evidence of extraterrestrial life. But we MAY have figured out how the first life forms originated on Earth. (May. It’s a pretty big “may” when it comes to this kind of science.) Continue reading “DNA Found on Meteorites Came from Space!?” »
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