So the aliens might wipe us out because of our carbon emissions? I don’t think these NASA scientists have considered how risky and untenable our position truly is. Carbon emissions are just one good reason aliens might wipe us out. Consider a few others: Our inadequate city planning Our atrocious table manners Our lack of […]
UPDATE: Skeptics are beginning to come forward… heavily against the likelihood of this being true. Its an extraordinary claim. So, Dr. Richard B. Hoover – the NASA scientist who is publishing this work – took the extraordinary step of inviting peer review and criticism BEFORE publication. “Given the controversial nature of his discovery, we have […]
Image via Wikipedia UPDATE: Take the survey. The discovery of Gliese 581g is a truly exciting and wonderful development. Here we have a planet just a little larger than our own sitting right smack in the middle of the habitable zone of the star it orbits. If ever we’re going to find life out there […]
In this artist’s conception, a Neptune-sized gas giant orbits M-dwarf star Gliese 436 Credit: NASA/G. Bacon. This star is similar in size to Gliese 876 where a newly discovered rocky planet was found in a close orbit. Last February Phil wrote about the discovery of a brown dwarf solar system. The article Phil referenced added […]
The New York Times published an Op-Ed yesterday from Paul Davies, astrobiologist and author of many books including The Fifth Miracle: the search for the origin of life. One tenet of evolutionary biology is that all life on Earth is related – that all plants and animals all the way down to microbes are descended […]