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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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POPSFirst Optical SETI Detection? Even if he picks up the signal again - he's been scouring the same co-ordinates of the night sky on an almost daily basis since - the scientific rule book dictates he'll need to get it peer-reviewed before he can take his announcement to the world. "And that is a lot of ifs," he concedes. Has Bhathal made the first detection of an advanced technological civilization from an extrasolar planetary system? According to the article, Bhathal's OZ OSETI program is an optical SETI program searching for extraterrestrial laser bursts. The only optical SETI program in Earth's southern hemisphere, OZ OSETI searches out to 100 light-years -- an area large enough to contain at least 1000 stars and perhaps 20 times as many planets.
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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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POPSNearby Solar System Looks Like Our Own at Time Life Formed Right now, Epsilon Eridani is surrounded by three asteroid rings that scientists believe are held in formation by large planets, the first of which is theorized to sit about half the distance from Mars to Jupiter. In the new paper, two other large planets, slightly farther from their star than Uranus and Neptune are from the sun, are proposed to explain the shape of the outer belts. It will take more sensitive instruments — perhaps like the next-generation of planet-hunting telescopes — to determine whether any would-be Earths lurk inside the habitable zone near the star.
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POPSIncredible Discoveries Made in Remote Chilenean Caves Cont.... "There were no footprints where we were going, and I only saw the slightest evidence of human use," Wynne told LiveScience by email Monday night as the day's work was sinking in. Wynne and his colleagues moved carefully through the cave to place a sensor along the wall, part of their NASA-funded research. "Much to my surprise, as we moved about halfway through this passage, my foot completely sunk into the soil," Wynne said. "It was mud! There was a lot of it. It was all contained within the salt stream flow that meandered through this passage." There is no known source of water nearby.
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POPSTOP 20 WORST CASTING DECISIONS EVER Part II (#10 - #6)
Here in the second Part I had to go deeper into the author's reasoning. No problem with Knightley, Denise Richards (though he was rather brutal), and Shatner... but I take exception with Robinson and Connery! Robinson did not play the Pharaoh in the Ten Commandments, Yul Brynner was Ramses II and his father, Seti, was played by great British actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Robinson was a minor overseer of his fellow Hebrews building the Pyramids... Never let Hollywood stand in the way of history but the reviewer should know that there was no Hebrew Pharaoh! The second point is a little less on point and more of opinion, but I find Sean Connery is such a great actor that disbelief is suspended when he is on the screen (note: Highlander II; the one no one wants to claim they made was a glaring exception but it was a stupid movie!) I found him convincing as Bond long before I thought of Moore, Dalton or Brosnan and they were very good Bonds and I had never seen an original until the mid 80
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POPSNew Telescope Array Could Help Detect Possible Signals From Advanced Civilizations Employing this new equipment in a unique, targeted search for possible civilizations enhances the chances of finding one, in the same way that a search for a needle in a haystack is made easier if one knows at least approximately where the needle was dropped, said Henry, who is speaking about the proposal at the American Astronomical Society annual meeting in St. Louis. According to the researchers, the critical place to look is in the ecliptic, a great circle around the sky that represents the plane of Earth's orbit. The sun, as viewed from Earth, appears annually to pass along this circle. Any civilization that lies within a fraction of a degree of the ecliptic could annually detect Earth passing in front of the sun. This ecliptic band comprises only about 3 percent of the sky.
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POPSDonate Your CPU To Fighting AIDS When you're not using your PC, all it's processing power is lying unused, wasted. It doesn't have to. Distributed computing lets you team up with SETI researchers to discover alien life, or donate processing power to the struggle to find a cure for cancer. :)
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