Sentences with phrase «of signs of extraterrestrial life»
The most widely celebrated use of the technology is the SETI@home project, which analyzes radio signals from the Arecibo telescope in search of signs of extraterrestrial life.
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He believes larger interplanetary probes could deploy swarms of Sprites to pepper promising asteroids, moons and planets with sensors seeking out mineral deposits or signs of extraterrestrial life.
Both scenarios offer hopes that beneath Ceres's barren surface there may be regions warm, wet and accessible enough to investigate for signs of past or even present extraterrestrial life.
SETI@Home What it is: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence scans the sky for signs of life.
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has looked for many different signs of alien life, from radio broadcasts to laser flashes, without success.
Thus far, Rein notes, scientists haven't been able to agree upon a single chemical — oxygen, for example — that could be a conclusive sign of extraterrestrial life.
And that raises some worrying questions about the work going on these days to find signs of extraterrestrial life.
If we are extremely lucky, and find signs of not only extraterrestrial life but also extraterrestrial intelligence, the consequences will spread beyond our sciences to shape and change our religion, philosophy, literature, and art.
Researchers with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) looked for radio signals coming from the star's galaxy (which could be a sign of alien life) but failed to find any.
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.
It also may be a great place to hunt for signs of extraterrestrial life.
One of the biggest flaws in Swedish director Daniel Espinosa's (Safe House) Life, which follows what happens to the crew of the International Space Station after they discover the first evidence of extraterrestrial beings, is that lead biologist Hugh (Ariyon Bakare) seems to immediately throw all common sense out of the window and get emotionally attached to the thing they've brought on board, despite really REALLY glaring warning signs that the alien is highly intelligent.