Case in point, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg is joining forces with fellow billionaire Yuri Milner and famed scientist Stephen Hawking to
search for alien life on a nearby planet...
Not exact matches
«We're out
searching the solar system and the galaxy
for extraterrestrial
life,» says Dinneny, 39, «and we have
aliens on our own planet.»
Though
aliens might have very different needs than Earth - based critters, and may not even require water, scientists lean
on a go - with - what - works approach in the
search for life.
For a long time, that's been a confounding problem in the search for life beyond Earth: If alien life looks nothing like it does on our planet, if it abjures DNA and RNA for building blocks utterly strange, how could robotic explorers even know that they've discovered
For a long time, that's been a confounding problem in the
search for life beyond Earth: If alien life looks nothing like it does on our planet, if it abjures DNA and RNA for building blocks utterly strange, how could robotic explorers even know that they've discovered
for life beyond Earth: If
alien life looks nothing like it does
on our planet, if it abjures DNA and RNA
for building blocks utterly strange, how could robotic explorers even know that they've discovered
for building blocks utterly strange, how could robotic explorers even know that they've discovered it?
Cluster computing is not a new idea, having found success
on desktop computers with projects like SETI@home, which uses idle PCs to
search for signs of
alien life.
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.
Ross 128 b's closeness makes it a prime candidate in
searches for alien life, but that will have to wait until more sensitive instruments and telescopes come
on line in coming years.
A new catalog of exoplanet discoveries by NASA's Kepler space telescope has revealed two distinct size groups of small
alien worlds, a finding that likely will have a huge impact
on the
search for extraterrestrial
life.
Astrobiology, the
search for alien life, has a lesson
for us here
on Earth: our hope
for a long -
lived civilisation may not be sustainable.