Sentences with phrase «alien intelligence»

Not even a little drop of alien intelligence guides anything on this world or universe.

There is a very simple way, I think, to look for alien intelligence.

And one signature of alien intelligence may be, cough, cough, air pollution.

The «Dawn of Man Sequence» at the beginning of the film quite explicitly covers our transition from gatherers to hunters and does it all without a word, and in the finale of the film, Kubrick has the guts to show Bowman's encounter with alien intelligence without explaining a thing.

The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence by Paul Davies.

He mentioned the wager at a session on the current state of the search for any signs of alien intelligence at the World Conference of Science Journalists in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Marketing of the spheres The gold plaque attached to Pioneer 10 — itself a slightly more legitimate attempt to contact alien intelligences than the one featured in this segment — made an appearance in both Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Futurama.

Yuri Milner is financing Breakthrough Listen, a project using the Parkes Telescope and others to find alien intelligence.

But those holding out hope for contact from extraterrestrials can breathe easy: Humanity's current search for alien intelligence doesn't rely on an intelligible message, say scientists with the SETI Institute, which is dedicated to the search for life in the universe.

The findings, reported in the journal Acta Astronautica on Tuesday (April 10), reveal the limitations of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or ETI: Humans are tied up in their own biases and attentional limitations and might miss alien intelligence even if it's staring us in the face, the researchers said.

Dr. Jensvold will present «An Ethological Approach to Communication» on communicating with nonhumans at the SETI Workshop on Decoding Alien Intelligence.

In any way he can — from less - than - benign cover story to world - scale «conditioning» — the doctor is eager to herd all these damn people out of the way so Western Science and this cold, unfeeling alien intelligence can get on with it, already.

Thus, to interpret the monolith as a form of alien intelligence leaves us with more questions than answers.

Finally the crew learn that the ship has been taken over by a ruthless alien intelligence, introduced through the Mir space station, that has killed the three hundred Russians on board.

For people like me, though, who can take Arkham Horror for what it is, a diabolical beast that may actually have a genuine alien intelligence behind it, there's a beauty here that has been matched by few other games in my estimate, although as somebody relatively new to the world of board games that is hardly saying very much.

AIPD, short for Alien Intelligence Police Department, is a new age space fight game reminiscent of Mine Storm, mixed with Asteroids and a Tron theme.

The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence by Paul Davies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) For 50 years a dedicated group of scientists have listened for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations — and heard not a peep.

Synopsis: Science fiction adventure about a group of people who attempt to contact alien intelligence.

LOOKING for alien intelligence?

The Allen Telescope Array, however, named for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who donated seed money for the project, will allow SETI astronomers to survey the skies for signs of alien intelligence 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

«We don't know why the satellite isn't responding, therefore it must be because an alien intelligence is blocking the signal.

Not an alien intelligence, not the Hindu god, Lord Brahma, not nature itself, but her god.

The Weavers gradually absorbed not only the racist religious doctrines of Christian Identity, but became familiar with the world of UFOs and alien intelligences, the supposed machinations of the Bilderbergers and the Illuminati and, most of all, the alleged conspiracies of those who were said to be the literal offspring of Satan, the Jews.

Unexplained phenomena from Martian canals to genomic patterns have been ascribed to alien intelligence — but mainly that's turned out to be wishful thinking

Paul Davies is director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University and author of The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010).

«You could argue that it would give us an inkling into an alien intelligence possibly greater than our own, one that could save our species someday or keep us out of intellectual ruts,» he says.

The more electrophysiologist William Gilly learns about these mysterious denizens of the deep, the more they seem like an alien intelligence

You'll likely agree with the author that the octopus possesses the closest thing on earth to an alien intelligence.

Should any alien intelligence be there to receive it, they're in for quite a treat: This binary stream of data contains short musical clips from some of...

«If an alien intelligence came to Earth looking for life, they would probably get a sample of sea water, loaded with virions.

an alien intelligence takes over a high tech russian boat and plots to TAKE OVER THE WORLD (hey, that NEVER happens, pesky alien scum!)

Until the diverting special effects take center stage, this story, about an alien intelligence that builds an army out of flesh and metal, pathetically exploits genre conventions without generating self - reference, camp, or thrills.

The story encapsulates the idea of survival, man's need to use intelligence to survive and to kill in order to live which evolves to man's use of technology (a computer «incapable» of error) that is ultimately programmed to survive a mission to find the alien intelligence at any cost.

If the monolith is interpreted as some kind of alien intelligence, one can assume that intelligence may have something to convey to man.

And we're left with the hope that he learns something, even if their confrontation with the alien intelligence called The Network (voiced by Bill Nighy) ends with the eradication of all technology on the planet.

It turns out that Newton Haven is a hub for an alien intelligence.

Upon reaching the final pub, King bests the alien intelligence with his most noteworthy personality trait: being confounding.

Ronan's character has her mind taken over by an alien intelligence called Wanderer as part of an invasion.

In it, the alien intelligence that beckoned us (meaning humans) to the farthest reaches of the universe prove to not be friendly.

Sci - Fi Movie Page Pick: So... the military has been taken over by an alien intelligence?

The monolith — whether it represents a divine being or an alien intelligence — bestowed tools upon the prehistoric humans, and they proceeded to kill each other.

by Walter Chaw Event Horizon approaches the science - fiction idea of a mysterium tremens, hints that it will be about the inscrutability of an alien intelligence — like Lem's and Tarkovsky's (and Soderbergh's) variations on the theme of Solaris, for instance, or that monolith in 2001.

It might be too technical for the average person, but hey, they wrote a book on best practices with talking with an alien intelligence.

Pulling from long - standing fascinations with film and television tropes, abstract sculpture, game ephemera, poetry, apocryphic histories, internet esoterica, and philosophies of being, Oneohtrix Point Never's myRiad is a hyperstitial «concertscape» imagined from the perspective of an alien intelligence that explores disorienting relationships between space and sound and mutates forms of live musical performance.

Octopus are truly the closest thing to alien intelligences that exists on this planet.

(And thoughtful, too, about what these discoveries of alien intelligence might mean for our sense that legal rights should attach to intelligence of at least a minimal sort.)

However, it may as well be called Alien Intelligence.