How about asteroids, not enough money going over that way and we already have lots of movies about that one.
Not exact matches
To get a sense of
how people would feel
about finding intelligent aliens, Varnum analyzed reports that the interstellar
asteroid «Oumuamua could be an alien spaceship (SN Online: 12/18/17).
That's
how he used to feel
about asteroids.
Planetary scientists hope the stony siblings — the youngest yet identified — will reveal new details
about how collisions shape the lives of
asteroids.
Editor's note: This story was updated November 9, 2017, with new information
about the
asteroid's name and
how fast it's traveling on its way out of the solar system.
His hypothesis depends on a major reinterpretation of many different mythologies and raises questions
about how frequently major
asteroid impacts occur.
Learning more
about how space weathering and close encounters with Earth can alter their appearance, he explains, which could make it easier to match meteorites that land on Earth with the
asteroids where they originated.
«We may not even know what we should be looking for in these
asteroids, but by looking at what molecules we find, we can ask different and more questions
about how they could have helped get life started.»
«What's neat
about what we found is that when the
asteroid hit, it completely flipped
how the oceans worked.
Discussions
about how to send astronauts to Mars often center on «stepping stones» — for example, whether to go to a near - Earth
asteroid or the moon first.
We learned
about how asteroids can reveal lots of things
about the early solar system and that, according to Linda French «light can move mountains in space,» it's called the Yarkovsky effect... and it's really cool.
Extend learning
about a concept (e.g., «Describe
how asteroids and comets fit into the solar system and the characteristics that distinguish them from one another»).
While I'm posting (I can see
how you guys get into this) I'm also very uncomfortable with your notion of «tacit knowledge:» it certainly seems to be tacit knowledge in the blogosphere that the chances of the climate sensitivity (equilibrium warming on indefinite stabilization at 560ppm CO2, for the non-enthusiasts) being greater than or equal to 6 degrees are too small to be worth worrying
about (meaning down at the level of an
asteroid strike).