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POPSStephen Hawking on Extraterrestial Life more: Hawking continues: "What is the explanation of why we have not been visited? \One possibility is that the argument, about the appearance of life on Earth, is wrong. Maybe the probability of life spontaneously appearing is so low, that Earth is the only planet in the galaxy, or in the observable universe, in which it happened. Another possibility is that there was a reasonable probability of forming self reproducing systems, like cells, but that most of these forms of life did not evolve intelligence." We are used to thinking of intelligent life, as an inevitable consequence of evolution, Hawking emphasized, but it is more likely that evolution is a random process, with intelligence as only one of a large number of possible outcomes.
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POPS"A kid from Harlem reaches toward extraterrestrials" more: "My idea was to send sounds of nature into space. Thunder, lightning, the ocean, rain. I thought aliens might hear them and recognize them," he said. Kamau also made other recordings he thought would offer little glimpses of our world: a man grilling chicken on the street, a crow's caw being drowned out by an airplane overhead and so on. Kamau was one of six winners of the Kids' Science Challenge, a new nationwide competition funded by the National Science Foundation in which third through sixth graders submit experiments and problems for working scientists and engineers to solve. Kamau posed the question, "How can we communicate with extraterrestrials if we donÕt know if they have a language similar to ours and if we donÕt know their communication system?"
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POPSOnline peek at Peter Jackson's sci-fi movie more: They like to scavenge things, rip up train tracks. So the authorities shift them 200 miles away, into the African veldt. They've built a concentration camp. The residents of Joburg want them gone." Some of the visual effects for the film were done by Wellington's Weta Digital. " the aliens are so mundane and so part of the geography that you don't really focus on them at all," Jackson said. "The film has a documentary rawness to it. It's original, which is good because the film industry today only wants to remake every 70s TV show and superhero graphic novel." * Watch the trailer here.
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POPSKazakhstan: Government to build UFO base and alien embassy continues (at source): Fuad Gasimov, the head of neighbouring Azerbaijan’s national Aerospace Agency has confirmed this to be the case and has gone on record stating the old USSR constantly monitored alien spaceships regularly entering the water but kept this a military secret. Gasimov himself was involved in this secret monitoring of UFOs when a department heat at the USSR’s science academy. In addition to this, numerous UFO sightings occur in Kazakhstan where it is believed aliens take an interest in their massive natural resources. As recently as last year a UFO was reported as having crashed into a river in Kazakhstan.
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POPS"Will We Soon find Life in the Heavens?" 'let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere up in Space 'cos there's bugger all down here on earth" continues In the coming months, two new tools will greatly expand astrobiologists' capacity to hear and see other promising signs of life. Later this summer, the nonprofit SETI Institute, named with the acronym for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, will begin listening for alien broadcasts on the new $50 million Allen Telescope Array. A spread of 42 radio dishes in California's Cascade Mountains, the array is the first such facility built specifically to listen for E.T. "We're looking for life that's clever enough to hold up its side of the conversation," says Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute. The array, half funded by Microsoft mogul Paul Allen, will search for alien signals at a clip "hundreds to thousands times faster" than current SETI projects, says Shostak.
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POPSMetagenomics http://www.realitysandwich.com/metagenomics_accessing_aliens_inside_us_all
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