Sentences with phrase «alien civilisations in»
Dreamed up in 1961 by astronomer Frank Drake, the equation provides an estimate of the number of detectable alien civilisations in the Milky Way.
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If I may digress a little: a regular pastime that I enjoy after hearing each enthusiastic new TV report of an endeavour to communicate with deep space civilisations (which we are now told must surely exist) is toimagine some «alien», hugely remote and distant from us in every way, twiddling with a radio set!
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence investigation looks for messages in space that can not be explained naturally and that could potentially be originating from an alien civilisation.
A Queen's University Belfast scientist has recreated the first ever mini version of a gamma ray burst in a laboratory, opening up a whole new way to investigate their properties and potentially unlocking some of the mysteries around alien civilisation.
In theory an advanced alien civilisation could produce a lot of waste heat and still maintain a stable climate by using geoengineering to counteract waste - heat warming.
Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi reportedly quipped to fellow physicists in 1950, when discussing why we haven't seen any signs of alien civilisations if, as many believe, our galaxy is teeming with life.
At 1.9 kelvin — a smidgen above absolute zero — the LHC is the coldest ring in the universe, unless an alien civilisation has built one that is colder.
The possibility, however remote it might have seemed, didn't escape the attention of the SETI Institute which swiftly focused the Allen Telescope Array on KIC 8462852, in the search for any radio signals of artificial origin that could have potentially been emitted by an advanced alien civilisation native to the neighboring star system, with initial results finding no such detection to date.
SYNOPSIS: Dr. Louise Banks, a celebrated linguist reeling from personal tragedy, is called in by the military to decode the language of an alien civilisation when a strange spacecraft lands in Montana... There's a human -LSB-...]
If some alien or distant - future civilisation set out to study the Earth's geological record, what signs would humans have left in the strata?