Sentences with phrase «of alien civilisations»

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.

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-...]

It would be hard to rule out the hypothesis of an alien civilisation arriving (and then departing post-industrially) unless the geological history of the evolution of the industrial species could be reconstructed at least to some extent.

Not exact matches

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!

Some might even suggest they may be messages from advanced alien civilisations but many experts have predicted that the bursts are emitted when jets of particles are thrown out by massive astrophysical objects, such as black holes.

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.

If we do discover an alien civilisation this way, we'll know we aren't the only dirty denizens of the galaxy.

Dreamed up in 1961 by astronomer Frank Drake, the equation provides an estimate of the number of detectable alien civilisations in the Milky Way.

But as we do not know the character of any aliens out there, and as it is difficult to put a value on the benefits to science, culture and technology of finding an advanced civilisation, de Vladar varied the reward of finding aliens and the cost of hostile aliens finding us.

It's a fascinating thought experiment with implications for the future of our own planet, as well as for alien civilisations.

«If that's correct, there should be some signs of dead alien civilisations all over the place,» says Duncan Forgan of the University of St Andrews, UK.

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.

I wonder whether the solution to the Fermi paradox — that if there are intelligent aliens, why are there no signs of them — might be that a civilisation capable of colonising the stars may consider it, on the whole, wiser not to do so (5 February, p 40).

Unless an alien civilisation is just a few centuries ahead of us technically — unlikely given the age of the universe — on receipt of our missive they will know that our capability is way below theirs.

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.

I like XCOM 2's visuals — the architecture of the new human / alien civilisation is surprisingly lovely, masking the iron fist beneath.