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We humans are obsessed with the idea that we’re not alone, that somewhere out there in the universe, there are other life forms intelligent enough to communicate with us. Or maybe even destroy us. But if there is life out there, why haven’t we heard from them yet? Or have we?
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In 1961, the astronomer Frank Drake devised a calculation that predicted the existence of millions of civilisations out there among the stars. His Drake Equation used some fairly speculative assumptions, but it ignited our curiosity. Are we just one small part of a vast, cosmic zoo?
Virginia Cookie Stringfellow of Irondequoit says she has had experiences with extraterrestrials spanning over 40 years. One by one, a few dozen members of the New York Chapter of the Mutual U.F.O. Network logged into the organization’s monthly virtual meeting on the third Wednesday in April. It was a proud moment for the group, a nonprofit composed of civilian volunteers who study reported sightings of unidentified flying objects. Two of its members, Virginia Stringfellow, of Irondequoit, who goes by “Cookie,” and Chris DePerno, a retired police detective from Syracuse and the chapter’s assistant director, had been recently featured in
Credit: SETI Institute
April 29, 2021, Mountain View, CA - The SETI Institute announced today the 2020 and 2021 recipients of the SETI Forward award, recognizing outstanding undergraduate interns studying astrobiology and SETI research: Karen Isabel Perez - Columbia University, Ellie White - Marshall University and Siddhant Sharma - University of Delhi. The SETI Forward award provides scholarship funds to support the next generation of scientists pursuing SETI and astrobiology career opportunities and connects promising students with researchers. All three recipients will receive their awards at the 2021 Drake Awards ceremony taking place on May 6, 2021. We are delighted to recognize Karen, Ellie and Siddhant for their achievements as summer interns in astrobiology and SETI research programs, said Bill Diamond, President and CEO of the SETI Institute. Providing undergraduates with the opportunity to not only do compelling science but also explore and discover career opportunit
“This is a great discovery!” said ESO team member Themiya Nanayakkara in fall of 2018 about the discovery that almost all of the sky is invisibly glowing with Lyman-alpha emission from the early Universe. “Next time you look at the moonless night sky and see the stars, imagine the unseen glow of hydrogen: the first building block of the universe, illuminating the whole night sky.”
Lyman-alpha Emission –“
First Building Block of the Universe”
An unexpected abundance of Lyman-alpha emission that covers nearly the entire field of view in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) region was discovered by an international team of astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT).
For what purpose did the human brain evolve is a question that has puzzled scientists for decades.In 2010 Colin Blakemore, an Oxford neurobiologist argued that a mutation in the brain of a single human being 200,000 years ago turned intellectually able primates into a super-intelligent species that would conquer the world. Homo sapiens appears to be a genetic accident.
We failed to build a radio during the first 99% of our 7 million year existence
We are the only species of the billions of species that have existed on Earth that has shown an aptitude for radios and even we failed to build one during the first 99% of our 7 million year history, according to Australia National University’s Charles Lineweaver.