During the second week of Youth Garden Project's Summer Camp, our campers graduated from Astronaut Academy and launched into space during this "Intergalactic Exploration" themed week.
Let your imagination run wild and try out this simple 'Dear Alien' activity that was an absolute blast at camp.
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If you have family members or multiple kiddos who want to participate, swap letters with someone and read their letter as if you are their alien pen pal!
And here's another article:
NASA funds research into alien technological civilizations
"Technosignatures relate to 'signatures' of advanced alien technologies similar to, or perhaps more sophisticated than, what we possess," said Avi Loeb, a professor of science at Harvard and one of the grant recipients.
"Such signatures might include industrial pollution of atmospheres, city lights, photovoltaic cells (solar panels), megastructures or swarms of satellites."
"The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence has always faced the challenge of figuring out where to look," said Adam Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, and the primary recipient of the grant. "Which stars do you point your telescope at and look for signals?
Believable Extraterrestrials - Scientific American Blog Network
On the 26th of April 1920, in a bit of canny PR, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. C. hosted a debate between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis. The topic was the question of whether or not the 'spiral nebulae' were actually distant galaxies (implying a universe far more expansive than previously imagined) or simply a part of our own Milky Way (implying that this galactic realm was, in effect, the universe).
Regardless of the immediate value of this slightly contrived discussion, it did help push along the publication of works by Shapley and Curtis and in some ways become a model for bringing the nature of the scientific method (and argument) more into the public eye. In fact, back in 1995 the format was resurrected , again at the Smithsonian, for the first of a new generation of public debates. That one tackled the then-unknown nature of gamma-ray bursts.
How Many Extraterrestrial Civilizations Can Communicate In Our Galaxy Right Now?
The Copernican principle is the idea that Earth does not sit at the center of universe or is otherwise special in any way. When Nicolaus Copernicus first stated it in the 16th century, it led to an entirely new way to think about our planet.
Since then, scientists have applied the principle more broadly to suggest that humans have no special privileged view of the universe. We are just ordinary observers sitting on an ordinary planet in an ordinary part of an ordinary galaxy.
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Scientists theorize that space aliens may already be here, but we don't recognize them -
Stargazing scientists have recently begun to focus on the prospect of encountering intelligent extraterrestrials, and the more they think about it the more they realize the first meeting probably won’t be with little green men in flying saucers.
What aliens might look like is a growing question among astrobiologists, who are increasingly conjuring up creatures more Lilliputian than mega-brained or reptilian.
“In all the mathematical models, a species that started early in the history of the galaxy and had the will and resources to diffuse could by now have filled many parts of the galaxy with its artifacts or biological spores,” Fraknoi said.
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