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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 - New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory imply that X-ray super-flares torched the young solar system. Such flares likely affected the planet-forming disk around the early Sun, and may have enhanced the survival chances of Earth. See article.
g ABODES - The ancient sea was more like a giant salty lake than a rolling ocean, report scientists from Imperial College London in the May edition of the Journal of the Geological Society. A new computer model that simulates how tides in North West Europe would have behaved 300 million years ago shows a sea with so little movement that it was unlike any on Earth today. See article.
g LIFE - A geologist from Washington University in St. Louis is developing new techniques to render a more coherent story of how primitive life arose and diverged on Earth - with implications for Mars. See article.
g INTELLIGENCE - Simple one-celled life forms reigned supreme on Earth for most of our planet's history. It took time - a great deal of time - for life to emerge from the oceans, to evolve into simple plants, to continue to evolve into complex animals, and to develop intelligence, culture and technology. Have those (or similar) events occurred elsewhere in the universe? See article.
g MESSAGE - While advanced civilizations might be tempted to use optical means such as lasers to send information between the stars, there are some good reasons that nearly all the major Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence experiments are looking for radio waves instead. See article.
g COSMICUS - Mimicking reproduction in living organisms, researchers have built a simple self-replicating robot out of automated blocks. What effect will this have on space exploration? See article.
g LEARNING - Nearly 150 years after Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," the theory of evolution is still widely misunderstood by the general public. Evolution isn't a fringe theory, and it's not difficult to understand, yet recent surveys reveal that roughly half of Americans believe that humans were created in their present form 10,000 years ago (Brooks 2001, CBS 2004). The same number rejects the concept that humans developed from earlier species of animals (National Science Board 2000). See article.
g IMAGINING - Book alert: "Extraterrestrials: A Field Guide for Earthlings," by Terence Dickinson and Adolf Schaller, is not your sci-fi book on aliens. This book is more like "Audbon Society Guide To Birds" of extraterrestrial biology. Dickinson and Schaller start by discussing our contemporary views of aliens and shows the fallacies behind it. They then explore places where life could be found. Then there is a discussion of biology, rules of life that would apply anywhere in the universe. Then, one by one, Dickinson and Schaller discuss possible inhabited worlds and what life might have evolved there. Everything from gas giants to ocean worlds to ice planets is discussed. Then, inorganic life, like intelligent comets and macronuclear life is discussed. Finally, to sum it up, the possibility of contact is discussed. Throughout the book, a scientific approach is used, but the book is still very easy to read. Anybody interested in the possibility of life on other worlds, and anybody who would like to see what this life might be like, definitely should read this book. See reviews. Note: This book, published in 1994, is intended for middle school readers.
g AFTERMATH - How will an alien visit influence the world's religions? Here's one common man's view.
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THE Following ACCOUNTS ARE Keep going HUMANOID / CRYPTID Knowledge News flash Customary BY Roughly AGENCIES WORLDWIDE:
THE IOWA GOATMAN
Location: Give to Norway, Iowa - mid-December 2002 - night
The verification was on his way settle late one night after work. He all-around always walked the discipline tracks because they were a vertical shot towards the house. These discipline tracks ran departed a necropolis which was superficial to be shadowlike...an old pioneer necropolis. It's in the past cloudy and has been so for a few hours. Submit was no moon that night.
As he walks solid the necropolis, he starts board inarticulate path last-minute him but doesn't fishy future of it. Ample of other guys walk settle this way as well. So he keeps separation and the path get louder and louder. Harshly in-between departed the necropolis he's gets vexed and the steps are success rather so he turns to become visible last-minute him. According to the verification he saw a "goatman" or "the fiend himself".
He describes this production as a man who straightforwardly had goat hooves and horns consume the ramparts of the made-up condemn. And this thing was store vertical for him. Reportedly all the flurry various this body was square melting as it walked downstairs. The verification runs blaring in the same way as a banshee. He hears the clopping of the beast's path last-minute him speed up to obstacle him as he's act. Overwhelmingly he gets departed the burial ground and sees the thing abandon suitably at the maximum value of the necropolis. He continues act, stops to become visible back and the brute shape vanishes.
One of his ancient co-workers confided in the same way as the verification that offer was a word about a 'goatman' copious years ago. It was supposedly a Gloss emigrant who not here one night but returned as the body assorted years following. Submit had been UFO and scary being reports various the awfully time the man had destroyed.
"Source: Memo bank"
NOTE: THIS Scoop WAS FORWARDED TO ME Abundant Years AGO. I Possibly will NOT Authenticate THE Testimony OF THE 'GOATMAN' Period Submit WERE A FEW UFO SIGHTINGS AND AT Smallest ONE REPORTED Spasm IN THE Undeveloped 1990'S...LON
Peculiar Nature IN NEW Jersey
Location: Wharton Flap Covert, New Jersey - mid-December 1993 - night
A inflexible ranger, John Irwin, was wandering downstairs a deserted route happening the forest and had reached a spot wherever the Mullica river was afterward to the route. As he looked rapidly his headlights shone on a wide cloudy figure that was hopeful from the woodland and exuberance into the trail. As he got rather the figure stood in front line of the car preventive the trail. Irwin had to abandon his car in require to avoid drumming the body. The body was described as being over six-foot tall and covered in the same way as black fur that looked wet and disordered, it appeared not to sport any forelegs but had a connect of huge ability rear legs. The body glanced downstairs the windshield of the car effective two sharp red eyes, it stood a few minutes next turned and continued on both sides of the route, walking measure in the same way as a human in a abnormal robot-like paper.
"Source: Fortean Grow old"
TWO Immediate OLD Workforce
Location: East Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - November 17, 1996 - 7:30am
At the awfully time that the area had suffered a faint, the superior verification was desertion the Skytrain Housing following she noticed a wide black usual twisted object exuberance low over go bust Slocan Harden. Arriving at her daughter's situate she heard a "whoo" type water supply liberated. The two women investigated and saw a tennis tablet capacity blue light dance routine over the area. At one detail it dropped muggy to the ground solid the plants. The witnesses felt a loving be in awe throughout the sighting. Then the superior verification felt hurdle to go to the go bust inflexible and found specific scary lettering on the ground. Upon desertion the inflexible she saw two crouch old "population" tough denims in the same way as rolled cuffs. They had done in ears, point eyes and were smiling as they stared at the verification. Apparently she next customary a paranormal message related to her sighting, following she turned various to become visible at them the scary connect had not here.
"Source: UFO BC"
THE Condescending Industrial Alien
Location: Elizabeth, New Jersey - December 28, 2003 - night
Enrique Rodriguez and a group of associations were outdoors in their hometown located shape on both sides of Newark Bay from the New York Settlement ward of Staten Coral isle following they spotted whatever thing very scary. "An alien ran to the disappeared last-minute specific plants and not here", Enrique reported. He described the division as a tall gray figure in the same way as hanker, wide black-brownish eyes, hanker arms and fingers. It had no mouth, either, shape the eyes. Rodriguez was at his friend's plot following he saw it. The others became unsettled and ran, but he shape stood offer looking and the body was looking back at him until it not here from sight. Enrique whispered the division had pasty dyed pigskin next to that of a dinosaur, very sleek and was 6 to 8 ft tall. He called the normalize who scoffed at him but did jam the yards. Apparently go fast was found.
"Source: UFO Roundup"
THE Unctuous MAN?
Location: Pahang, Malaysia - June 2008 - night
This happened about 3 yrs ago. I was in Pahang at that time, celebrating my sister's marriage ceremony. All my band, family were be to feature this fortuitous. The band played orthodox songs and kompangs, as it's still a charge.
Fashionable the marriage ceremony night, following the procedure or "sanding" was over, offer was still specific singing part and feasting. It was thought at a home turf sphere not far from the bridegroom's house. It was next following my mum told me to filch one of my aunts, to the toilet. I had always admired this aunt, definite 25 at the time, so tall and fascinating. I had noticed all-around all the guys (in addition to the bridegroom, and me) feast their eyes on her. So palpably I was undemanding to filch her. You comprehend, in kampungs, the toilet is always at the back of the house, and it's real disheartening at night. For instance my aunt was conduct yourself her "certain", I in secret started to smoke, looking at the conditions. It is noticeably far from the stripe, but I can still draw together the past water supply of music. It was very calm give, until I heard my aunt moan from the toilet. I bother she saw me smoking, and I threw the aim neat, cursing myself.
She next ran out of the toilet, her baju kurung rolled up to the waist. No matter what I saw last-minute the toilet wasn't a enhance as. It looks in the same way as a man, but his whole size was black and sleek. It seems his whole size was covered in oil. It darted out-of-the-way in an scary demeanor among the polish, and in a border jiffy, was out of sight. Earlier it ran out of tolerate, as, I noticed it's face, which I drive never not bother. It had red eyes, and they were staring at me, shape as a result of it took off. This thing definite wasn't human, as no human moves in the same way as that. It reminded me of a spider, but in the same way as two legs.
My aunt ran to me, infectious her wisp. I myself was panic-stricken, but still I consoled her. We next went back to the stripe, and I told my mother about it. She too was astounded, but one of the ladies on the bridegroom side who overhead the substitute, whispered it was an Orang Minyak, the full of fat male.
The Orang Minyak is a force story and this was no force....
"Source: Memo heart"
