Cause Of Greatest Mass Extinctions In History And How Smart Aliens Might Use Gamma Ray Bursters

Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than usual; career, family and book deal commitments have forced me to cut back some of my projects. Now, here's today's news:

g STARS - What is the habitable zone of the nearby star system Eta Cassiopeiae AB? See article.

g ABODES - A new study shows that changes in sea levels and ocean sediments may be responsible for some of the greatest mass extinctions in history. The research sheds light on the connections between life and the environment of Earth. See article.

g INTELLIGENCE - You might expect men and women to look at sexual photographs differently. But a new study unexpectedly found that men are more likely than women to first look at faces rather than other parts of a nude body. See article.

g MESSAGE - Regardless of what causes gamma-ray bursters, they could be the key to discovering life elsewhere in the universe. An astrophysicist says smart aliens might use the bursts to alert us to their messages. See article. Note: This article is from 1999.

g COSMICUS - A new technique has been developed to identify organic matter in soils using ultraviolet light. The technology could be useful in the search for signs of life on Mars. See article.

g LEARNING - This retrospective highlights Arthur C. Clarke's influence on space travel, space exploration, and astrobiology. See article.

g IMAGINING - Like first contact stories? Then be sure to read Harry Turtledove's novel "A World of Difference," published by Del Rey in 1990.

g AFTERMATH - What role will extraterrestrials play in humanity's future? See this paper by University of Toronto Professor Allen Tough. Though written more than 20 years ago, the paper contains plenty of useful ideas that are fresh (and ignored) today, especially those about extraterrestrial behavior and help.

Tenth Planets Moon Pre Cellular Life And The Great Silence

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 - Common wisdom holds that we can never see a black hole because nothing can escape it - not even light. Fortunately, black holes aren't completely black. Within a few years, astronomers believe they will be able to peer close to the horizon of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. See article.g ABODES - The astronomers who claim to have discovered the 10th planet in the solar system have another intriguing announcement: It has a moon. See article.g LIFE - Virtually all biologists now agree that bacterial cells cannot form from nonliving chemicals in one step. If life arises from nonliving chemicals, there must be intermediate forms, "pre-cellular life." Of the various theories of precellular life, the most popular contender today is "the RNA world." See article.g INTELLIGENCE - The emotional intelligence of students indirectly contributes to academic success in information technology studies, preliminary results from a study led by Virginia Tech researchers show. See article.g MESSAGE - During the early 1980s, David Brin offered an explanation for Fermi's Paradox, which asked why if extraterrestrial life existed it wasn't on Earth. Brin's answer: The Zoo Hypothesis. Here's a copy of that groundbreaking paper, "The 'Great Silence': The Controversy Concerning Extraterrestrial Life".g COSMICUS - Researchers at UC Irvine and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute have developed a two-person, centrifuge-like, one-stop workout machine that makes its own gravity. See article.g LEARNING - Here's a neat classroom activity courtesy of NASA: "Planets in a Bottle." The lesson plan involves yeast experiments intended for second through fourth grade students. See lesson.g IMAGINING - Could the legendary dragons of Pern from Anne McCaffrey's famous science fiction novels actually exist? Welcome to the theoretical science of dracogenetics. See article.g AFTERMATH - Would dutiful American citizens trust the government to handle first contact with extraterrestrials and rush to get information to the public? See article. Note: This article is from 1999.Get your SF book manuscript edited

Looking For Life In The Coolest Places And Expect Most Et To Score Lower On Sats Than You

Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g ABODES - By studying life in the coldest places on Earth, scientists are learning about the potential for life on other planets in our solar system. Researchers are returning this year to the arctic island of Svalbard where they will test equipment for future missions to Mars. See article.g LIFE - A simple sponge is revealing mysteries about the evolution of life on Earth. Scientists have sequenced the genome of a sponge from Australia. The information is now helping biologists search for DNA sequences shared by multicellular animals. See article.g INTELLIGENCE - There may be a lot of life in the universe. If so, it's a safe bet that most of it will score lower on the SATs than you. See article. This article is from 2002.g MESSAGE - A message from a hypothetical ET was designed in 1962 by astronomer Frank Drake after an early SETI conference in Green Bank, West Virginia. The message started out as a string of binary digits1s and 0s. Can you decode it? See article. This article is from 2001.g COSMICUS - Scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency have picked the all-important instruments for their joint Mars mission set to blast off in 2016. See article.g LEARNING - Book alert: One thing can be said about astronomy and its related sciences: the questions they try to answer are literally as big as the universe they study. Some of the most fundamental questions of our existence fall into their realm: How was the universe created? How did our solar system form? Is there life out there beyond the Earth, intelligent or otherwise? And what is the ultimate fate of the universe? Those are among the questions that British astronomer Stuart Clark examines-but can't always answer-in the aptly named book "The Big Questions: The Universe." See review.g AFTERMATH - Should we really expect extraterrestrials to be sympathetic to our pleas to be altruistic because of the symbolic kinship we might share with them? See article. This article is from 2003.Get your SF book manuscript edited

Celestial World Premiere Movie Trailer

"CELESTIAL" New Film By Jose Escamilla, July 21, 2012Jose Escamilla has been involved in the research and investigations of an aerial phenomenon he discovered in 1994, called RODS. His expertise as a film and video editor of over 30 years has made him a world renown figure in the world of UFOS, RODS and the Paranormal.His film UFO: The Greatest Story Ever Denied has gained international acclaim as the best documentary film ever made on UFOs. Kevin Smith, Director of Clerks and Dogma; says' "UFO is the Loose Change of UFO Documentaries", Michael Luckman, author of "Alien Rock" calls it "the Farenheight 911 of UFO documentaries" and his film stylings bring the delivery of UFOs as never before.Now Jose brings us "CELESTIAL"A Special message from Jose Escamilla:On July 21, 2012, we are taking you back to the Moon.CELESTIAL brings you the"full color" photography of the Moon taken during the Clementine Mission in 1994. The landscapes are breath-taking. The color photography is stunning.Prepare for a journey to a new world full of mysteries and color.Sign up as an exhibitor and present the film on your Web Sites and You Tube Channels.Sign up as a viewer and receive a special download available ONLY for those who register with TBLN Films.http://tblnfilms.com/CELESTIAL.htmlThank You - - Jose EscamillaJose Escamilla, is known for his highly controversial films. He has lectured at conferences in the UK, Mexico and the US.He has numerous radio and television appearances and his name and image has over 1 billion household impressions worldwide.

New Ways To View The Problem Of Sharing Science And Beaming Doritos Commercials To Aliens

Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than usual; career, family and book deal commitments have forced me to cut back some of my projects. Now, here's today's news:

g STARS - What is the habitable zone for the nearby star system EZ Aquarii ABC?

g ABODES - Controversy still surrounds the life-detection results from NASA's Viking mission of 30 years ago. The Phoenix mission now on Mars may help answer questions raised by Viking, but researchers will need to be able to spot the difference between chemical and biological signatures. See article.

g LIFE - Some fundamental building blocks of our genetic code might have come from outer space, according to a controversial new meteorite study. See article.

g MESSAGE - It could be the longest commercial break in history. Over a six-hour period, high-powered radars in the Arctic Circle broadcast an advertisement into space for the first time. See article.

g COSMICUS - Transistors made from a new kind of material are now being tested in space. The durable new technology could benefit long duration missions to planets like Mars and aid in completing science objectives like the search for signs of life in our solar system. See article.

g LEARNING - If science communications in astrobiology is about researchers sharing their results, the audience for new findings may well turn out to be a surprising finding in itself. John Horack, one of the principal Internet architects for how a Webby-award winning NASA site found its audience, explains new ways to view the problem of sharing science. See article. Note: This article is from 2004.

g IMAGINING - Scientifically speaking, are UFOs worth keeping an eye on? Not exactly. See article.

g AFTERMATH - The structure of terrestrial music might provide clues to creating interstellar messages that could be understood by extraterrestrial intelligence. In the process, he suggests that music may provide a means of communicating "something of our consciousness that is essentially human, regardless of the civilization from which it emerges." Note: This article is from 2002. See article.