In July of 2015, Breakthrough Initiatives announced that it was embarking on a ten-year initiative to conduct the largest Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) to date.
This initiative was aptly named Breakthrough Listen , which combines state-of-the-art software and data obtained by premier observatories around the world to look for signs of extraterrestrial technological activity (aka. technosignatures).
In recent years, Breakthrough Listen has made two major releases of data , and announced a lucrative collaboration with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission.
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Roman civilization, for instance, lasted less than a thousand years from the founding of its republic to the fall of its empire (after a long decline). In the New World, Maya civilization spanned roughly two millennia (maybe a little longer depending on when you date its beginning). In the late Bronze Age, the Greek Mycenaean civilization lasted a mere five centuries or so. As for American civilization (as in the United States of), at the rate things are going it won't last even that long.
Aliens are out there. But a new study suggests they're more rare than we think.
According to a new analysis from scientists at the University of Nottingham in England we don't have a lot of alien company.
On June 15, two researchers published a paper in the Astrophysical Journal arguing that the Milky Way — which sports an estimated several hundred billion stars — could host as few as 36 alien societies. That's a surprisingly tiny number, although the authors also make a second, more generous analysis in which they say that the count might be as many as a thousand.
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This week 73 years ago, the Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico issued a press release saying that its 509th Operations Group had recovered a "flying disc" that had crashed nearby. Coming weeks after a pilot reported flying saucers near Mt. Rainier southeast of Tacoma, Wash., it fueled public interest – which Hollywood was happy to exploit.
Most know memorable movies about aliens, but many are relatively recent: "E.T.: The Extraterrestrial," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Independence Day." All spark feelings of exhilaration, fear or suspicion, emotions used by directors for decades, especially in the 1950s, when flying saucers and propaganda about Communist infiltration set the cultural tone as much as rock ‘n’ roll and Ike.
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Trump on aliens: "I won't talk to you about what I know about it, but it's very interesting." pic.twitter.com/qndmlLxy8T
Space Café Podcast Episode 006 Featuring Dr. Adriana Marais Is Now Available - SpaceWatch.Global
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