It’s a long, cramped journey through pitch blackness. Inside a thick-hulled submersible, Anne Dekas and two colleagues are squeezed into a space barely bigger than a car’s front seat. After the first 200 meters, sunlight can penetrate the ocean no further, though the flashes of bioluminescent sea creatures provide a welcome respite in the inky abyss.
Dekas with Alvin’s sphere in 2016 – the part researchers actually go inside – without the housing after it was replaced during the last renovation. (Image credit: Amy Wagner)
Not to change the topic here:
BLC-1 probably isn't an extraterrestrial signal.
On Dec. 18, the world learned that Breakthrough Listen, a privately funded search for extraterrestrial intelligence, had found its first official candidate signal. The signal's existence lit up the Internet. Was BLC-1, as it's called, finally our moment of contact?
Now, however, the long desert of opportunity may finally be giving way to a new era of growth. In 2015, Internet billionaire Yuri Milner pledged $100 million to create Breakthrough Listen , a next-generation radio-based search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Kohlrabi and Apple Salad with Chèvre, Nuts and Seeds | Wine Enthusiast
To those unfamiliar with kohlrabi, the knobby veg can look a bit extraterrestrial. Green or purple in color with a swollen, baseball-like bulb and slender stems that reach up into leaves, it's not botanically a root at all, but part of the Brassicales order of flowering plants and related to cabbage. Still, many in the culinary world consider it a root and treat it accordingly.
Rohani Foulkes, owner of Folk, an all-day cafe turned takeaway window/market/catering business in Detroit, urges home cooks not to be intimidated by kohlrabi if they are confused by it. "Don't be afraid of anything new, albeit, different," she says. Requiring little more than slicing and tossing, her recipe shows how easy it can be to prepare.
Texas A&M Team Plans Out-Of-This-World Construction - Texas A&M Today
A new Texas A&M University-developed technique that allows for the creation of building materials using local soils could prove key not only to the success of future space missions to the Moon and Mars, but also to establishing a solid and safe foothold on both.
The futuristic concept that came one step closer to reality with last week's successful landing of NASA's Perseverance rover on the surface of the red planet.
Thanks to a 2021 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program grant awarded to a team led by Texas A&M chemist and NASA NIAC Fellow Sarbajit Banerjee , innovation that began with boggy, water-logged soils from Canada to Texas may soon be applied to the rocky, razor-sharp regolith that dominates the lunar and Martian landscapes in order to help solve a three-part problem Banerjee says has plagued the space agency since the Apollo missions: excessive dust, unnecessary damage and
This may worth something:
Former Israeli space security chief says extraterrestrials exist, and Trump knows about it
A former Israeli space security chief has sent eyebrows shooting heavenward by saying that earthlings have been in contact with extraterrestrials from a "galactic federation."
"The Unidentified Flying Objects have asked not to publish that they are here, humanity is not ready yet," Haim Eshed, former head of Israel's Defense Ministry's space directorate, told Israel's Yediot Aharonot newspaper. The interview in Hebrew ran on Friday, and gained traction after parts were published in English by the Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
A new era in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence : NewsCenter
"If the trend continues, the search for intelligence in the universe may finally escape the giggle-factor that for so long left it associated with bad sci-fi shows and generic UFO nuttiness," Frank writes.
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A keen interest in the possibility of alien life ultimately led geomicrobiologist Anne Dekas to study some of the l… https://t.co/wR6DW7x4cq Stanford (from Stanford, CA) Tue Mar 02 22:16:47 +0000 2021
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