Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Galaxies like our own common and ETI signal would change human destiny

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 - Galaxies like our own Milky Way formed easily and have also been the largest spiral galaxies in the universe for almost 4 billion years. See article.
g Abodes - A spacecraft using a bold new method to study Venus — flying directly through the planet's atmosphere — has found that the atmosphere at Venus' poles is thinner than expected. See article.
g Intelligence - Researchers presenting new fossil evidence of an exceptionally well-preserved 55-million-year-old North American mammal have found it shares a common ancestor with rodents and primates, including humans. See article.
g Cosmicus - The lunar South Pole – a land of craters, shadows, intrigue and science! Here's a wide-angle mosaic of the South Pole is one of the latest stunning images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Oribiter. See article.
g Aftermath - What would an intelligent signal from another planet change about human destiny? This large question is the topic of the book “The SETI Factor,” by Frank White, who also analyzes how to announce such an historic finding and whether it would unite or divide nations. See article. This article is from 2003.

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