Alien Definition and 127 Threads

I wonder if I might pick the brains of the forum's experts? I am embarking on creating a new gaming campaign world, something I've wanted to do for years but never quite manged: an entirely alien world (i.e. not populated by humans or the like), yet with the same sort of technology as you'd...

Giant Alien Planet Discovered in Most Distant Orbit Ever Seen \http://www.space.com/23858-most-distant-alien-planet-discovery-hd106906b.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2416761/Scientists-claim-evidence-ALIEN-LIFE-Balloon-sent-edge-atmosphere-picks-organisms-come-space.html "British scientists believe they have found evidence alien life after sending a balloon to the edge of space. The team of scientists sent...

I stumbled upon this article and was wondering what others think of it? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-truth-is-out-there-british-scientists-claim-to-have-found-proof-of-alien-life-8826690.html

Hey. I offer this idea in hopes that somebody with more knowhow can contribute. Basically the idea is this. Scan IR/Microwave/Radio wavelengths for recurring bits of information that can be sorted into a working language. If the language seems that it reveals information in some sort of...

Let me get right to the point: I believe that if there is ever contact with Aliens, they will either be so similar to us as to be funny, or be so different from us as to be nearly incomprehensible. A whale doesn't look like a bacteria, which doesn't look like a rose, or a moose or a...

Assume it could be from a world where the gravity is much higher or much lower than ours, it could be much hotter or colder than ours, it would have to have a method of manipulating tools.

On Wikipedia, I was reading the Stanisław Lem article and got linked to the Hypothetical types of biochemistry and Fermi paradox article, particularly the section on They are too alien, where it states "Another possibility is that human theoreticians have underestimated how much alien life might...

I found this news in the yahoo. I think it's amazing. The first extra-ordinary proof of alien existence http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/offbeat/11711701/russias-chilling-alien-discovery

Yes, I know that it should be found and hunted (harvested?) first. ;) Let's take assumption that's a carbon based life form using water as solvent. Are the aminoacids that we use the only feasible and convergent evolution would cause that they would have the same? What would be a reaction...

The http://crysis.wikia.com/wiki/Weapons#Aliens" - are they theoretically possible? The weapon "Molecular Arrestor" is basically a freeze ray, is this thermodynamically possible? Freezing something would require removing energy - how something have its energy removed that rapidly makes it...

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/05/exclusive-nasa-scientists-claims-evidence-alien-life-meteorite/ When you consider the intergalactic scale and that there are something like 3x10^24 stars it seems so probable that life would exist--even in more complex forms. I heard that other labs...

I am working on a scifi series. This question crosses both Aerodynamics and Exobiology topics. I thought it would be interesting to have a genus of nonsentient birdlike creatures on an alien planet and they can fly at supersonic speeds. What would the physiology of these creatures be? They...

I figure that intelligent life couldn't have formed until, at the very least, the second generation stars that started birthing forth carbon (maybe 3 billion years after the Big Bang?). On Earth, it took something like 2.5 billion years until multicellular life formed, and so maybe we can...

How serious should we take this theory? I have been watching the show on the History channel lately and the ancient alien theorist have a lot of evidence. I mean some of the claims are a bit far-fetched, but the evidence is there. What do you guys think?

Hello, I am interested to know how many readers think that we will find life in our solar system, if so when?. I am confident that we will find basic life forms in a human lifetime. also if anyone thinks that there is more that one intelligent civilisation in our galaxy other than our own...

So today i go to work lifeguarding... i step out of the punch in office and this fellow guard took the corner towards the punch in office while i was turning the corner to leave; we both had enough space and were not in front of each other. She slightly jumped when she saw me, said sorry, and...

By 1960, new radio telescopes were capable of detecting radio signals from at least the nearest stars and scientists began to consider what a message from outer space might look like. Dr. Frank Drake (the originator of the Drake Equation) came up with this first attempt at what a message from...

Homework Statement A spacecraft of mass m0 is descending with velocity v0 to land on an alien plant where the value of g is 1/6 of g on the earth. In order to land safely (meaning the final velocity upon landing is zero), fuel has to be burnt at a constant rate dm/dt=-k, where k is a...

Hello, a couple decades ago, an argument was introduced in a notable physics journal of some kind, but I cannot recall the name of this argument, or the journal. I believe it might have been associated with Cambridge, but can't remember. The argument is a logical theory as to why the...

Homework Statement An Astronaugt is doing an experiment on an alien planet. She fires a ball straight up towards a target ball that is dropped at the same time as the lower ball is launched. If air resistence is ignored, how long does it take for the two balls to collide? Homework...

Homework Statement On an alien planet you throw a stone upward and measure the times Ta and Tb. The difference in heights of point a and point b is h. Calculate the acceleration due to gravity. Ta = 7.1s; Tb= 4.4s; h = 15.1m Homework Equations a = dv/st v(t) = vo - gt The...

Cool. http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3742 Abstract: To simulate the kinds of observations that will eventually be obtained for exoplanets, the Deep Impact spacecraft obtained light curves of Earth at seven wavebands spanning 300-1000 nm as part of the EPOXI mission of opportunity. In this...

Lets assume an Alien race that's 1.2 billion years ahead of human civilization in terms of technology. Do you think they'd be able to store the entire internet in one of their single device? If not, then how much storage do you think they'd have? Discuss..

Please give an honest, clear answer and leave a detailed comment unless the answer is none. Please make the comment inside the signature poll. I am using a different poll because my poll is active in other forums. Poll: Have you ever seen a UFO, alien or unusual cosmic object. · UFO · Alien...

http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=5929 Seen this linked on a site. Most of us have figured it out, can you? Considering the nature of these forums, you guys should have no problem figuring it out.

voltage/charge problem Homework Statement Imagine a small metal sphere left by some alien civilization is floating in space. A probe is launched directly at the sphere in order to study it. When the probe is 1000 m from the sphere, it detects a voltage of 110.0 V; and when it’s at 100.0 m...

What do you guys reckon to the odds of us finding alien life? The fermi paradox: 'If there are all these billions of planets in the universe that are capable of supporting life, and millions of intelligent species out there, then how come none has visited earth?' I reckon there exists...

CNN's "Alien believers among us" Part 1 of 5. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/11/24/obrien.aliens.not.just.crazy.cnn

Not sure if this has been asked here (searched but couldn't find anything), but I thought this was an awesome question (heard in a feynman lecture) If you were communicating with an alien race, with no visual lines of communication (only audio) how would you explain left and right, so that it...

Hello everyone :) There is an alien that just came to Earth and is having trouble recognizing peoples faces. We also have trouble recognizing his face; where his eye is on one hand and a mouth on the other. Luckily for us the alien understands our language and simple colours. The task is...

A guy claims to have video of an alien, and he's going to show it to some people tomorrow. He won't let the public see it because it's going to be included in a documentary. http://media.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/content/purported-ufo-video-be-shown-friday.html

This is basically the gist of Huckabee's immigration plan touchback provision: He would repeal the multi-year baring of illegals to re-enter the U.S. for illegals who register during a 120-day period with Homeland Security and temporarily exit the country (for only a few days, at most). It...

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/intergalatic_shot.html Solid proof that aliens are about, this must have been a warp core breach.

History channel: "Alien engineering" show I'm curious if anyone saw this show, or part of it. (I only watched part, it was rather long). For a rather ga-ga premise, the show seemed to be fairly serious. A friend of mine commented that it might attract kids to science. I know I don't want...

Here's a problem which I encountered a while ago: "There is an alien on the surface of a spherical planet. The alien can run at a top speed of u. An alien hunter is hunting the alien in his spaceship which can fly at a top speed of v. Once the hunter sees the alien, he fires, and the alien...

Dr Roger Lier, a qualified surgeon, claims to have removed a total of 11 implants from aliens. He has sent them off to "one of the most abvanced labs in the world" and the people who did the tests were stumped by it. I saw this clip of him which, i think, is going to be aired soon in an...

Below is a link to a video of a group of boys playing soccer in an alley in Mexico. At 0:29 an alien figure reaches for a boy. The quality of the video is not that great. It was recorded using a cell phone. The boys are speaking in spanish. I speak spanish so I can translate: The boy after...

Suppose you are going to meet an alien from another planet. How can you make sure that the alien is not build of antimatter without touching it? My teacher told me that I have to compare the rate of the C-P violated processes. I didn't understand this point.

Ok, this letter is tongue in cheek, but I thought it took a humorus poke at a not so humorus issue. The Honorable Joe Lieberman Senate Office Building 309 Hart Washington DC, 20510 Dear Senator Lieberman, As a native to CT. and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I...

Has this video been discussed on this forum? [/Color] Reference: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2812084192530401757 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7774302182564094167

To be given in a few minutes, he will offically announce the call for National Guard troops to be sent to the border for support roles with the border patrol, but with no law enforcement directly. Now, in principle I might agree with the effort. Something has to be done. But at the same time, we...

A very partial transcript of the BBC interview is on this link and you can watch the whole interview: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4977134.stm" I spotted this on my way round the web it's about a guys hacking into top secret computers involved with the DoD and NASA...

This is part of a survey I am doing for a class project, wanted to get a sampling from the scientific community. Many Thanks.

I once watched a tv program on the possibility of alien life. The program intrigued me in the possibility that life as we know it might not be as limited. Some possibilities that entertained me are: 1) alien life might not need DNA to transfer traits to the next generations. 2) They might be...

Hello, I'm new to this part of the forum and thought it might be fun to poke a stick into the hornet's nest (so to speak). Lot's of folks have alien abduction stories to tell, and lots of these stories have unsettling similarities. Some of these similarities are the apparent ability of...

Have you seen this? http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601022 Any comments?

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=318 :approve: :approve: Don't execpt to be aliens.I'am hoping it is but stuff like this could an error or a bad joke.:wink: :bugeye: Let's hope they have highly advance Universial translaters Never mind it happened a long time ago.I got to exicted sorry.

They have been around for some time now, but where did the idea of little green men come from, or the big eyed hairless Ivan type, how many different alien forms are there ?

Here Dr. David Jacobs is interviewed by Aaron Sakulich: The first two pages (introduction)may be a bit dull, but it gets quite interesting after that. Does anyone disagree with something said in the interview? Heres another interesting quote: