August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
...Spielberg movie E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial features a lovable alien. The now legendary Drake Equation asked the scientific community...Contact is based on a SETI scientist who finds evidence of alien life. The book on which the film is based was written...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... conditions in which the first colonists would have to live and also the effect that prolonged exposure to an alien biosphere would have on the humans themselves. It is suggested that such anthropological questions are worthy of independent inquiry...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
...many years I had been suppressing my love of space exploration and aliens - ever since I first wore an astronaut’s suit as a ...the vital decision, my mother recommended I watch the documentary film Aliens of the Deep by James Cameron, as she knew that ...
11 September 2017
Are we being watched from afar?
...…,” if there was, then it stands to reason that alien scientists are standing on their own planet thinking exactly the ... atmosphere. Reversing this concept, the team considered how an alien observer would see the Solar System from afar, by identifying...
March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
...visible and infrared spectra collected simultaneously) serve other purposes. They provide some early characterisations of the alien world so engineers and scientists can finalise sensor parameters to be used for the many subsequent observations. They...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
...employment... Krugman once wrote that he hoped for an alien invasion as an economic stimulus This well describes our ..., though in jest Krugman once wrote that he hoped for an alien invasion as an economic stimulus. Thus we have a situation where...
