Sunday, May 16, 2010

A star is born and why is SETI nearly exclusively an American game?

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 - A vast hole in space has been unexpectedly discovered in a part of the universe thought to be packed with a cloud of dense gas and dust. See article.
g Abodes - Water is essential for life as we know it, and some scientists believe that the water on Earth was delivered by comets after the planet's formation. Now, a new study of silver in meteorites and Earth rocks tells a different story. See article.
g Message - Why is SETI nearly exclusively an American game? See article. Note: This article is from 2008.
g Cosmicus - Stephen Hawking is best known for thinking about time, space, and those teratoid trash mashers known as black holes. But in a recent talk in Hong Kong, the famous physicist digressed from his usual subject matter to tell the audience that they’d better get off the island, and he didn’t mean Kowloon. Instead, the Cambridge don was urging the crowd to get off the whole, gosh-darn planet. Hawking was hawking space colonization. See article. Note: This article is from 2006.
g Aftermath - Astronomers are searching hard for that first interstellar phone-call from ET. But when it happens, how will we react? Will it be a major trauma for humankind, or a new beginning? See article. Note: This article is from 2004.

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