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Solar system.nasa.gov If Oumuamua is the real deal, meaning an alien craft, then Earthlings are doing some really weird stuff on the scale of alien intelligence. Think about it… If it’s an alien craft or drone, there’s no way it entered the sun’s solar system, swooping within 15M miles of Earth, powered by fossil fuels. […]
11 New Books We Recommend This Week Feb. 11, 2021 Crime and punishment make their presence felt in this week’s recommended titles, from Russell Shorto’s family history of his grandfather’s mob ties (“Smalltime”) to Philippe Sands’s account of a Nazi fugitive (“The Ratline”); Maurice Chammah’s study of the death penalty and its decline (“Let the Lord Sort Them”) to Reuben Jonathan Miller’s look at the life that awaits ex-inmates (“Halfway Home”). Also on our night stands this week: Ethan Zuckerman’s new book about the collapse of institutional authority (“Mistru...
Aliens must be out there The sun is over Earth’s horizon as seen from aboard the International Space Station above a point in southwestern Minnesota, May 21, 2013. REUTERS/NASA Written By 12th Feb 2021 The sun is not special. I know that’s a churlish thing to say about everyone’s favourite celestial body, our planet’s blazing engine and eternal clock, giver of light, life and spectacular Instagram backdrops. Awesome as it is, though, the sun is still a pretty ordinary star, one of an estimated 100 billion to 400 billion in the Milky Way galaxy alone. And the Milky Way is itself just o...
Aliens must be out there What if we're just doing a slapdash job of looking for them? By Farhad Manjoo New York Times February 12, 2021 — 11:24am Text size Copy shortlink: The sun is not special. I know that's a churlish thing to say about everyone's favorite celestial body, our planet's blazing engine and ete...
When a man with stellar credentials talks about unidentified flying objects and visitors from outer space, he cannot be dismissed as a space cadet binge-watching 'The X-Files' during the lockdown. In fact, the contention of Harvard astronomy professor Avi Loeb that First Contact had already happened — and not just on Star Trek — has a disconcerting believability about it. ‘If you roll the dice on life billions of times in the Milky Way, what is the chance that we are alone? Minuscule, most likely! To say that if you arrange for similar circumstances, you get similar outcomes is, to me...