A bill to establish the agency passed through the National Assembly with little trouble this week. It received approval from 76 members of the chamber with 15 abstaining. President Daniel Ortega's Sandinista Party holds 71 of the 92 seats in the congress.
However, critics say that Nicaragua doesn't have the technical chops nor the financial resources to take on such an endeavor. "We are not scientifically able as a country to undertake this type of research," Jaime Incer Barquero, president of the nation's Academy of Geography and History, told CNN .
And here's another article:
We could find extraterrestrial civilizations by their air pollution
Here's how scientists protect Earth from extraterrestrial germs
For years, concerns about planetary protection have focused on preventing Earth from littering the solar system—sterilizing spacecraft and keeping astronauts under strict quarantine protocols. But as space agencies around the world gear up to bring more samples back from destinations such as asteroids, the moon, and Mars, scientists are once more considering the opposite prospect: What if we bring extraterrestrial germs back to Earth?
But as multiple sample-return missions head into higher gear, extra caution is once more warranted. In recent years, scientists have found hearty microorganisms that can survive in ever more inhospitable places. Diminutive tardigrades, also known as water bears, can even survive in the vacuum of space .
Gladys Vazquez's New Book Calimba, A Riveting Tale Of A Team Of Astronauts' Extraterrestrial
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. , Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- The book Calimba was created by Gladys Vazquez . Gladys is an author who was born in Loíza Aldea, Puerto Rico . She studied at the Andrés Flores López School and at the Catholic University of Guayama. She has two daughters.
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Published by Page Publishing, Gladys Vazquez's new book Calimba depicts a suspenseful adventure to outer space that takes an unprecedented turn involving a foreign host that impacts their expedition.
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How many alien civilizations are out there? A new galactic survey holds a clue.
Here's a good sign for alien hunters: More than 300 million worlds with similar conditions to Earth are scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy. A new analysis concludes that roughly half of the galaxy's sunlike stars host rocky worlds in habitable zones where liquid water could pool or flow over the planets' surfaces.
"This is the science result we've all been waiting for," says Natalie Batalha , an astronomer with the University of California, Santa Cruz, who worked on the new study.
NASA sent a map to space to help aliens find Earth. Now it needs an update.
A half century ago astronomers designed a map that would point to Earth from anywhere in the galaxy. Then they sent it into space, reasoning that any aliens smart enough to intercept a spacecraft could decode the map and uncover its origin. Many movies and TV shows have used variations on this theme as a plot point, but we didn't borrow it from science fiction. It's reality.
Truth is, this tale has been part of my family's lore since before I was born. Growing up, I'd heard stories about the map and seen its depiction on multiple interstellar spacecraft, and several years ago, I found the original, penciled-in pathway to Earth where my parents had stashed it. (More on this later.)
My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence. It changed astronomy.
Frank Drake , then an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory , was gearing up to search for radio whispers from faraway civilizations that might be sailing the cosmic sea. For such a grand quest, he had a budget of $2,000 and access to a radio telescope thought to be sensitive enough to detect transmissions from any potentially broadcasting extraterrestrials.
At the time, looking for evidence of alien technologies was still squarely in the camp of schlocky science fiction. But for my dad, it was worth taking a risk to find out if the cosmos is as richly populated as Earth's teeming oceans—or if humanity is adrift in a profoundly quiet interstellar expanse.
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