Sentences with phrase «of alien civilizations»

Or, as many people wondered after the videos were first published by the New York Times in December, might they be evidence of some alien civilization?

The Drake equation includes a term L, which represents the life span of an alien civilization, but the implicit assumption is that such a civilization would emit signals we could both detect and recognize during its entire life span following its invention of radio.

«We're taking everything we can get from our Kepler colleagues to look for techno - signatures» that might betray the existence of an alien civilization, she says.

«Space archaeologist» would be a fine job description for a fictional character on an interplanetary mission to unearth the ruins of an alien civilization.

Was it a family of comets or, more intriguingly, was it signs of an alien civilization?

In this mind - twitching alternative virtual reality, the artist aims to show «architectural monuments» of some alien civilization and are populated with contorted humanoid figures and bat - faced aliens.»

Looming above them are the architectural monuments of an alien civilization simultaneously suggesting the ancient and futuristic.

Not exact matches

This probably indicates that there are no alien civilizations at our stage of development within a radius of a few hundred light years.

Arnold Toynbee once warned that the Western technology will be corrosive of the non-Western civilizations, creating effects like ultra voilet or red lights or alien virus in the body.

There is a conscious effort made by Christian theologians to capture the growing awareness among Dalits that they were «members of an ancient primeval society disinherited and uprooted by the alien Brahmanical civilization.

If and when we are ever visited by an alien civilization, I can imagine one of the creature staring incredulously at the Vatican or wailing wall and asking its human hosts, «so, you REALLY thought it was all about you?»

One can imagine, if and when we are eventually visited by an alien civilization, one of the creatures staring incredulously at the Vatican and asking its human hosts, «so, you really thought it was all about you?»

Once one has repudiated the alien world of male civilization, this natural mother is waiting for us, her arms outstretched.

I never thought this was an alien culture, but rather a part of modern Chechen civilization.

Instead of a rosy time capsule of Earth and its history and inhabitants made for consumption by unknowable alien civilizations, it carries a dummy in a SpaceX space suit, and will blast David Bowie's «Space Oddity» at top volume from its speakers.

Third, Italian astronomer and mathematician Claudio Maccone has developed a mathematical equation to measure the amount of information and entropy representing different civilizations throughout history and compared them with what an alien civilization a million years more advanced than ours might be like.

In an effort to update the 1961 Drake Equation, which estimates the number of detectable, intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way, physicist Claudio Grimaldi and colleagues calculated the area of the galaxy that should be filled with alien signals at a given time (SN Online: 11/1/09)...

As Frank and Sullivan show, studying past extinction events and using theoretical tools to model the future evolutionary trajectory of humankind — and of still unknown but plausible alien civilizations — could inform decisions that would lead to a sustainable future.

If an alien civilization is looking at us from far away, and it knows something about chemistry, it will know that we have millions to billions of times more oxygen than we should [if there were no life on Earth].

KIC 8462852 or «Tabby's star» has dimmed like this several times before, prompting some researchers to suggest that the megastructures of an advanced alien civilization might be blocking its light.

He helped formulate the concept of seeking alien civilizations by listening for their radio broadcasts; he lobbied for nuclear disarmament, believing that atomic power should be wielded only for constructive effect; and he helped Charles and Ray Eames create Powers of Ten, perhaps the most stunning science movie ever filmed.

An alien civilization curious about the lifestyle of humans shouldn't limit itself to studying celebrities.

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The odds of an alien invasion got a boost from the discovery of vaguely Earth - like planets around other stars, but we still have no idea if alien civilizations exist.

Once focused mainly on detecting radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, the institute now employs scientists studying many factors important for the existence of alien life — from Kepler team members who are detecting and characterizing exoplanetary systems, to astrobiologists searching for life in the most extreme environments on Earth and in the solar system's exotic nooks and crannies.

After 35 years of eavesdropping on the stars, hoping to hear the intelligent murmurings of an extraterrestrial civilization, the SETI Institute's lead alien hunter is hanging up her receiver and retiring as director of the Center for SETI Research.

Or if, after traveling for thousands of years, radio signals carrying the imprint of an alien technological civilization fell on dormant Earthly ears.

That means any alien civilization that overhears earthlings or reaches out to us is likely to have been listening and transmitting for thousands, or even millions, of years, Vakoch said.

Today the agency has embraced the search for microbes on Mars and other planets but at least for now tends to avoid the far more controversial topic of looking for alien civilizations.

Although searching for alien civilizations may be one of the most publicly appealing topics in all of astronomy, it does not pay well, if at all, and attracting new researchers to the fold had been challenging.

Then they turned their perspective around and wondered what it would take to seek alien civilizations by looking for distant analogues of Dubai, or Las Vegas, or Times Square.

Imagine that an alien civilization built large numbers of energy - collection panels and that the panels had a range of sizes and orbits around the star.

Maybe our galaxy is bursting at the seams with alien civilizations, and we simply have not looked hard enough — presuming we are capable of properly looking at all.

Despite widespread speculation, the possibility of the signals coming from an advanced alien civilization has been largely ruled out.

«It is ironic that high concentrations of molecules with high global warming potential (GWP), the worst - case scenario for Earth's climate, is the optimal scenario for detecting an alien civilization, as GWP increases with stronger infrared absorption and longer atmospheric lifetime,» say the authors.

If there are any alien civilizations out there, they would only know about us if their planet is within that 200 - light - year bubble, or if they happened to be passing through our tiny portion of the Milky Way on a transgalactic journey.

The search for galactic emissions of radiation which could signal the presence of advanced alien civilizations has failed to find any, researchers say.

An international team of scientists from the SETI Institute, the private organization that is searching for signs of extraterrestrial life, revealed that it received mysterious signal spikes last year that could have possibly come from an alien civilization.

«Yet methane almost certainly would not have been detected by an alien civilization looking at our planet a billion years ago — despite the likelihood of its biological production over most of Earth history.»

According to researchers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), we might soon be able to detect hints of technologically advanced alien civilizations by measuring high levels of polluting gases in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets.

What is the possibility of other intelligent life in the universe and how might we detect signals from alien civilizations?

Basically, the authors of the study — Avi Loeb and Manasvi Lingam — state that the millisecondlong FRBs may be the result of a sufficiently advanced alien civilization trying to power spacecraft equipped with light sails (something that scientists have also thought about doing).

Four large, inflatable figures of green aliens, ranging from 4.5 m to 12m tall, represented the sacral objects for all the aliens and the Burners who believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life, and who worship alien civilizations.

Assaulted by all manner of killer machines and robots, the mercenaries must make their way through the tumultuous landscape, activate an inter-dimensional communication device, communicate with otherworldly aliens, and bring about a new age of enlightenment and prosperity for a dystopian galactic civilization.

Once they hit the lunar surface, they encounter an alien civilization that looks a heck of a lot like a colony of ants, complete with queen, soldiers, and busy little workers.

When she threatens to decimate an entire alien civilization, Professor X and the X-Men, along with fantastic new allies, face their biggest threat... one of their own!

Set a full 1,000 years after the fall of civilization, Guerrilla's new title sees the remnants of humanity reduced to mere cave dwellers, scouring the alien landscape for resources, shelter and any scraps of food they can find.

Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) has just been called on the carpet following an expedition to a primitive planet where, in the course of saving Spock's (Zachary Quinto) life, he violated the Starfleet's strict sanction against interfering with alien civilizations.

Tom Cruise plays a divorced dockworker who faces the end of the civilization when aliens arrive on Earth in the 2005 adaptation of H.G. Wells story War of the Worlds.

The survivors were led to believe that this alien civilization was benevolent, rescuing them from doom, but ultimately discover that the aliens have engineered Earth's destruction, and soon will do the same for the rest of humankind.