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Category Archives: Aliens
Doctor Who is not COMPLETELY fictional
Image from wikipedia.com This article covers arguably one of my favorite topics to swoon over-Doctor Who. I will be completely honest in saying that my intense interest in studying the solar system and beyond came pretty much single-handedly from watching Doctor Who (and maybe a teensy bit by my mom making me watch old Star […]
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Some pretty extreme(“ophiles”)
Image from wikipedia.com That above picture is of a water bear, one of multiple really cool extremophiles discussed in this article. The article makes a really cool comment about how we are lucky that water bears, and the same probably holds true for other extremophiles as well, are so small. Otherwise, it is likely that […]
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Blog Post #9: 11 of the Weirdest Solutions to the Fermi Paradox
Of all the topics covered in this class, I found the Fermi Paradox the most interesting, and this is probably …
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‘Definite Evidence’ Of Alien Life Within 20-30 Years
In a panel discussion earlier this month, NASA Chief Scientist, Ellen Stofan, said that there is definite evidence that we will find alien life within the next 20-30 years. She defines life not as ‘little green men’ but microbes, which…
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Liquid Confidence
“I believe we are going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth in the next decade and definitive evidence in the next 10 to 20 years,” Ellen Stofan, chief scientist for NASA. “It’s definitely not an if, it’s a when,” said Jeffery Newmark, one of Stofan’s colleagues. NASA made these bold claims at a […]
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Searching for intelligent life
Humans have always fascinated themselves with the idea that maybe we aren’t so alone in the universe. We have made efforts to find extraterrestrials and so far turned up nothing. Is there any hope for them finding us first? A number of organized attempts have been made to let “others” know that we exist. The […]
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The Goldilocks Zone: Not as elusive as previously thought?
New research from the Australian National University and the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen has calculated that billions of the milky Way star’s have one to three planets in the habitable zone (or nicknamed: “The Goldilocks Zone” because…
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The deep blue under the crust
NASA’s Cassini mission scientists announced recently that Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, Enceladus, has a warm ocean at its southern pole. The ocean is 9.7 km deep and resides under the moon’s icy crust of about 40 km. Tiny grains of rock were detected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft near Saturn. This indicates that there may be hydrothermal […]
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Other Life in our Solar System?
Through the use of computer modeling, a team of NASA scientists have confirmed that Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, contains water under its icy top layers. New modeling that takes into account salinity of the planet’s water suggests that below the surface … Continue reading →
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Potential Ocean Underneath Jupiter’s Surface
Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have found out that there is an ocean beneath the surface of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. According to NASA officials, this ocean that is buried under a thick crust of ice may hold more water than the collective amount of water on Earth. Scientists think the ocean is 10 […]
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