The idea of life elsewhere in the universe if one of my favorite topics. What kind of shapes would it take? What mechanisms for survival would it have evolved? I wonder how long if would be before we were able to communicate with other life in an effective manor?
I recently watched a pbs show about extraterrestrial life hosted by a guy named Timothy Ferris. The show was really good the way it gave a nice overview of all the relevant info and ideas. There is a scene involving an X-mas tree as a visual aid for the topic of communicating with ETs via radio waves. I hadnt ever thought about the subject in quite the same way before, theres a good chance that we may be listening and even talking to an empty universe given the time scales were dealing with. That idea is kind of a downer but just after they talked about the idea of finding the remains of a once advanced and far-reaching civilization. the idea was something like an interstelar internet system generating its own power, but just lying dormant for millenia after the demise of its creators.
Esoteric416 Reviewed by Esoteric416 on . New manned missions to Moon, Mars --- what do you think? Is anyone else excited about the new manned missions that NASA is planning to the Moon and Mars? Even though the missions are several years out, the systems are in development now. The shuttles will be retired in a few years and then NASA will shift to a new capsule-type vehicle called Orion to transport astronauts to space and back. The Orion capsule will be boosted into space using rocket systems derived from the shuttle boosters. For missions to the Moon, the capsule will dock with a Rating: 5