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There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'…
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There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the…
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The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.
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[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth…
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The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven't even talked about…
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In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home. Right? Because…
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The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands…
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Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago.…
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The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a…
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A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it…
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Everything you see is filtered through your visual system (imperfect) and your brain (also imperfect, despite what your mom told you). Witness…
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Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio…
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There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent…
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We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc.…
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By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the…
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Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun;…
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The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.
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The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is,…
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As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they…
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Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves…
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Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night.…
— Douglas Adams
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Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s,…
— Sarah Parcak
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The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart.…
— Seth Shostak
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At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal lenses synchronized…
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