An exploration of SETI and the possibility of detecting alien von Neumann probes at focal points of stellar gravitational lensing.
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Nov 2, 2021
‘Hot Jupiter’ Planet Study May Help Us Find Life-Friendly Worlds
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: alien life
A huge gas giant’s yield of water and carbon dioxide could one day help us understand the atmospheres of planets closer to the size of Earth, scientists say.
Telescopic observations of a “hot Jupiter” gas giant, which is a huge planet hugging in close to its parent star, revealed the first-ever direct measurements of water and carbon monoxide in an exoplanet.
The planet is too close to its star to host life as we know it, and far too large besides. But you can think of this study as a practice round, as measuring gas abundance in a larger planet will help with figuring out how to do so with much smaller planets that are potentially habitable — those that are closer to Earth’s size and potentially able to host water on their surfaces.
Oct 27, 2021
NASA scientists have a new plan: How to report signs of aliens
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: alien life
After heated debates and disappointments over past candidates of Martian life, NASA scientists have a new rubric for scoring signs of extraterrestrial life.
Oct 24, 2021
Dune — Stillsuits — can our space technologies match?
Posted by Ron Friedman in categories: alien life, sustainability
Dune Stillsuits — technology review.
How Stillsuits compares to the life-support and recycling solutions on the ISS, and challenges we may face in other planets and moons. A new video I released to Sci and SciFi channel.
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Oct 21, 2021
Why extraterrestrial intelligence is more likely to be artificial than biological
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: alien life, evolution
It’s Time to welcome our Space Brothers.
Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? It’s a question that has been debated for centuries, if not millenia. But it is only recently that we’ve had an actual chance of finding out, with initiatives such as Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) using radio telescopes to actively listen for radio messages from alien civilisations.
What should we expect to detect if these searches succeed? My suspicion is that it is very unlikely to be little green men—something I speculated about at a talk at a Breakthrough Listen (a Seti project) conference.
Oct 20, 2021
China’s New FAST Telescope Could Detect Alien Probes in Our Solar System
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: alien life, robotics/AI
Even swarms of self-replicating robots.
If alien civilizations exist, they may have opened a Pandora’s box.
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Oct 10, 2021
Fermi Paradox: 71 years later, SETI may have solved the cosmic mystery
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in categories: alien life, existential risks
“Where is everybody?”
The Fermi Paradox has perplexed scientists for years. We examine the possibility that we haven’t heard from any aliens is because no one is transmitting.
Oct 6, 2021
Scientists identify two galaxies that could be home to hyper-advanced alien life
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: alien life
Two of the galaxies they searched in had some unusual activity.
A team of astronomers are searching for Type III alien civilization among the galaxies, the most advanced type of extraterrestrial life.
Oct 5, 2021
Life on Mars? After Inspiration4, what SpaceX advisor sees for the future
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in categories: alien life, futurism
“There’s a possibility…that we’ll find life on Mars in the next 20 years”
Astronaut Garrett Reisman, who helped develop SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, has a bold vision of the future of space.
Oct 4, 2021
Could Simulation Theory Explain Why “Space is Hard”?
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: alien life, existential risks
What if none of this is real? What if everything we see, hear, touch, taste, smell, and perceive is part of a gigantic simulation designed to keep us contained? And what if the beings who built this simulation are part of a highly advanced alien species that created the simulation so they could study us and keep us under control.
This is the essence of the “Zoo Hypothesis,” which is a proposed resolution to the Fermi Paradox. It is also sometimes referred to as the “Planetarium Hypothesis” as a way of clarifying that the intention of the big simulation is not to protect but to control. Moreover, the zookeepers in this scenario have designed the simulation so that humanity won’t suspect they are living in a cage.
