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Monday, April 1, 2013

Ternyata ufo juga ada di bawah laut


Lebih dari 100 tahun belakangan, para awak kapal yang sedang menjelajahi lautan dibingungkan dengan penampakan-penampakan objek tak dikenal yang muncul dari dalam laut dan terbang dengan kecepatan tinggi. Objek-objek seperti ini kemudian diberi julukan Unidentified Submerged Objek (USO) atau Objek bawah air tak dikenal.

Banyak yang percaya kalau objek misterius ini sesungguhnya sama dengan UFO yang sering terlihat di udara. Karena itu, kadang objek ini juga sering disebut dengan istilah UFO air.

Penampakan USO disebut-sebut telah ada sejak ribuan tahun yang lalu.

Pada tahun 329 SM, pasukan Alexander agung disebut menjumpai dua objek berbentuk piringan yang muncul dari sungai Jaxartes di india. Menurut legenda, Alexander begitu terpesona dengan penampakan itu sehingga ia menghabiskan 6 tahun berikutnya untuk menjelajahi sungai itu dengan peralatan penyelam pertama di dunia.

Christopher Colombus juga disebut pernah menjumpai objek bawah air tak dikenal. Pada tanggal 11 Oktober 1492, kapal Santa Maria yang ditumpangi oleh Colombus sedang melewati wilayah segitiga Bermuda. Kemudian, mereka melihat cahaya-cahaya aneh berkelap-kelip di dalam air disusul dengan munculnya sebuah objek berbentuk piringan yang segera terbang dengan cepat ke angkasa.

Tidak ada yang bisa memastikan apa yang dilihat oleh Alexander agung atau Colombus. Ratusan tahun kemudian, kita kembali menemukan banyak laporan penampakan serupa. Contohnya seperti kesaksian-kesaksian di bawah ini:

Pada tanggal 18 Juni 1845, Malta Times melaporkan:

Saat itu kapal brigantine Victoria berada sekitar 900 mil di sebelah timur Adalia ketika para awak kapal melihat tiga objek bercahaya muncul dari dalam air. Objek-objek itu terlihat selama 10 menit dan terbang setengah mil dari kapal.

Menurut para awak yang menyaksikannya, objek-objek itu terlihat berukuran seperti bulan purnama. Penampakan ini juga dilaporkan oleh saksi lain yang berasal dari Adalia, Siria dan Malta.

Pada tanggal 12 November 1887, di dekat tanjung Race, sebuah bola api besar muncul dari laut, naik 20 meter, lalu mendekati sebuah kapal yang ada di dekatnya, yaitu kapal uap Inggris bernama Siberian. Objek itu bergerak menentang arah angin, kemudian mundur dan terbang menjauh. Peristiwa ini dilaporkan dan didiskusikan oleh majalah Nature, LAstronomie, dan Meteorological Journal.

Pada malam tanggal 10 Februari 1951 seorang pilot angkatan udara Amerika bersama rekannya sedang menerbangkan pesawatnya dari Islandia menuju Newfoundland. Ketika pesawatnya berada pada jarak sekitar 300 mil dari Newfoundland, mereka melihat sebuah objek bercahaya muncul dari dalam laut.

Ketika kami semakin dekat dengan objek yang berkilauan ini, ia berubah menjadi lingkaran-lingkaran cahaya putih yang besar di atas air. Lalu, kami melihat sebuah lingkaran cahaya berwarna kuning yang kecil, lebih kecil dibanding objek yang melepaskan lingkaran cahaya itu, pada jarak 15 mil. Ketika objek itu terbang mendekati pesawat kami, kami bisa melihat sebuah pesawat berkubah yang melepaskan korona.

7 tahun kemudian, objek bawah air tak dikenal kembali menjadi subjek pemberitaan.

Pada bulan Mei 1958, sebuah kapal selam misterius terlihat oleh para awak kapal perang Argentina. Kapal selam itu, walaupun kadang terlihat oleh mata, tidak bisa terlacak oleh sonar, hydrophones atau radar. 14 kapal perang Argentina kemudian memburu kapal selam itu sambil sesekali menembakkan torpedo kearahnya. Namun tidak terlihat adanya tanda kerusakan dan kapal selam itu terus melaju hingga menghilang dari pantauan.

Pada Oktober 1959 dan Januari 1960, kapal selam serupa kembali terpantau oleh militer Argentina. Perburuan kembali terjadi, namun kapal selam itu kembali menghilang.

Kapten Ray.M Pitts, salah seorang spesialis peperangan kapal selam yang ikut dalam perburuan ketiga mengkonfirmasi kalau objek itu memang kapal selam. Namun ia juga mengatakan kalau ia dilarang untuk berbicara lebih jauh mengenai peristiwa itu.

Tahun 1963, perburuan USO yang lain kembali terjadi. Kali ini sonar kapal selam Amerika yang sedang berada di Puerto Rico menangkap sebuah objek yang bergerak dengan kecepatan 150 knots dan berada pada jarak 20.000 kaki di bawah kapal selam.

Kapal selam itu membuntuti objek itu selama 4 hari lamanya. Pada hari ke-4, objek itu tiba-tiba bergerak dengan kecepatan yang tinggi sehingga lolos dari pantauan sonar.

Pada Agustus 1965, para awak kapal Raduga dari Rusia, sementara sedang berlayar di laut merah, melihat sebuah objek elips berapi muncul dari dalam air dan melayang di permukaan selama beberapa lama. Jarak objek itu hanya 2 mil dari kapal. Para awak memperkirakan kalau objek itu memiliki diameter 60 meter dan melayang pada ketinggian sekitar 150 meter dari atas permukaan laut.

Pada tanggal 30 Juni 1967, para awak kapal Naviero dari Argentina melihat sebuah objek silinder di dalam air. Objek itu mengeluarkan cahaya berwarna biru putih dan panjangnya diperkirakan sekitar 33 meter. Yang aneh adalah, objek itu tidak mengeluarkan suara sama sekali walaupun ia bergerak di air dengan kecepatan yang cukup tinggi. Bahkan hampir tidak ada ombak yang tercipta karena pergerakan benda itu. Ketika objek itu nyaris menabrak kapal Naviero, ia segera berubah arah dan menyelam kembali ke dalam air.

Pada tahun 1967, para saksi yang terdiri dari belasan orang melihat sebuah objek tak dikenal jatuh ke air di Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Kanada. Objek tersebut, yang terlihat seperti sebuah pesawat aneh, diperkirakan memiliki panjang sekitar 18 meter. Para saksi mata juga menyebutkan kalau pesawat itu melayang sebentar, mengeluarkan cahaya berwarna oranye, lalu masuk ke dalam air.

Insiden ini sempat diberitakan oleh media-media seluruh dunia hingga menyebabkan pihak militer dan polisi Kanada melakukan pencarian besar-besaran. Namun, pesawat misterius tersebut tidak ditemukan sama sekali.

Insiden Shag Harbour adalah salah satu insiden UFO yang paling terkenal di dunia.

Salah satu peristiwa perjumpaan USO yang paling aneh, mungkin yang berhubungan dengan kapal Volga.

Pada tanggal 7 Oktober 1977, Volga, sebuah kapal Rusia yang digunakan untuk memperbaiki kapal selam, sedang berada di laut karena panggilan untuk memperbaiki sebuah kapal selam. Tiba-tiba 9 objek bulat terlihat muncul dari air dan segera mengelilinginya. Peristiwa ini berlangsung selama 18 menit. Saat itu juga, seluruh sistem komunikasi di atas Volga mengalami gangguan. Kapten Tarantin yang memimpin segera memerintahkan para awak untuk mengamati objek-objek tersebut:

Aku ingin kalian mengamati objek tersebut dengan hati-hati dan mengingatnya baik-baik! Aku juga ingin kalian menggambarnya supaya ketika kita kembali ke Sovyet, tidak ada yang bisa bilang kalau kapten kalian ini gila dan mabuk!

Pada tanggal 26 Juli 1980, para pelaut dari kapal Brazil, Caioba-Seahorse, melihat objek bulat berwarna abu-abu dengan diameter sekitar 10 meter sedang meluncur di air. Pada saat yang sama, cahaya terang muncul di horizon dan mendekati objek tersebut. Lalu, semua peralatan di atas kapal mati secara mendadak. Cahaya itu kemudian bergabung dengan USO yang ada di dalam air. Setelah itu, USO itu naik, melayang selama beberapa saat dan terbang dengan kecepatan tinggi ke angkasa.

Salah satu penampakan USO yang paling spektakuler mungkin adalah yang terjadi pada tanggal 14 Juni 1992. Para saksi mata di California, mengaku melihat ratusan pesawat aneh muncul dari laut tanpa mengeluarkan suara. Penampakan ini kemudian segera dilaporkan ke pihak kepolisian. Namun, karena sifat penampakan yang terlalu luar biasa, pihak kepolisian tidak menindaklanjuti laporan ini. Kisah penampakan California ini pernah diangkat oleh History Channel dalam sebuah film dokumenternya.

Hingga hari ini, tidak ada yang bisa memberikan penjelasan mengenai identitas objek-objek tersebut.

Bagi mereka yang percaya dengan keberadaan makhluk luar angkasa yang cerdas, USO adalah bukti kalau makhluk luar angkasa sesungguhnya memantau bumi secara terus menerus dari markas yang dibuat di dalam laut. Jika memang ada makhluk luar angkasa yang berniat membuat markas di bumi, maka pilihan mereka untuk membuatnya di dalam laut menjadi sebuah pilihan yang tepat karena memang sebagian besar samudera kita sesungguhnya belum terjelajahi.

Ivan T Sanderson, dalam bukunya yang berjudul Invisible Resident (1970) menyatakan kalau USO adalah bukti adanya intelijensi lain di bawah air yang sedang mengembangkan peradabannya.

Jika memang ada sejenis peradaban teknologis yang unggul berkembang dalam planet di bawah air, maka peradaban ini tampaknya lebih maju dibandingkan dengan peradaban kita, sekitar beberapa juta bahkan mungkin miliaran tahun di depan kita.

Tentu saja, argumen ini tidak bisa dibuktikan. Namun, Sanderson tidak sendirian karena pemahaman ini juga dipercaya oleh banyak pihak.

Bagi mereka yang lebih skeptis, penjelasan mengenai penampakan ini bisa bervariasi, mulai dari salah lihat hingga rekayasa. Memang tidak bisa disangkal kalau ada kemungkinan para awak kapal telah melihat sebuah fenomena alam dan menyangkanya sebagai USO. Kejadian seperti ini banyak terjadi dalam kasus penampakan UFO. Namun pertanyaannya, fenomena alam apa yang memiliki ciri-ciri sesuai dengan deskripsi laporan para saksi?

Inilah yang masih belum dipastikan.

Beberapa orang lain percaya kalau USO yang sering terlihat sebenarnya adalah torpedo yang sedang melaju. Namun, torpedo tidak terbang ke udara. Ini tidak sesuai dengan deskripsi saksi.

Jadi, sebagian lain mengajukan teori kalau sesungguhnya USO adalah pesawat militer yang canggih.

Teori ini juga sering digunakan untuk menjelaskan laporan penampakan UFO. Jika kita kaitkan USO dengan pesawat militer, maka itu artinya cuma satu: pesawat itu haruslah sebuah pesawat yang mampu menyelam ke dalam air dan kemudian terbang dengan cepat.

Menariknya, pesawat jenis ini ternyata pernah ada, paling tidak dalam rupa prototipe.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Wow,,, Mahluk Luar Angkasa Menggunakan 'Twitter'?




Para ilmuwan mengatakan bahkan mahluk luar angkasa atau alien mungkin menggunakan pola yang lebih sederhana ketika mencoba melakukan kontak dengan manusia. Seperti Twitter -- misalnya.

Para alien bisa jadi menggunakan 'tweets' kosmis untuk mengontak manusia Bumi selama beberapa dekade. Sayangnya, kata para peneliti, kita belum bisa menangkap pesan tersebut.

Namun, pesan yang dikirim ke Bumi tidak persis sama dengan pesan di Twitter yang dibatasi 140 karakter. Penelitian menunjukkan para alien mungkin mengirimkan pesan pendek -- pesan langsung berupa sinyal, bukan memancarkan sinyal ke segala arah untuk menarik perhatian manusia.

Alasannya, peradaban alien diperkirakan punya kecenderungan membuat teknologi sinyal yang lebih efisien."Pendekatannya lebih seperti Twitter dan tidak seperti 'War and Peace'," kata Dr James Benford, fisikawan dan ketua Microwave Sciences, seperti dimuat laman Daily Mail."Mengirimkan sinyal melintasi tahun cahaya membutuhkan sumber daya yang besar," tambah dia.

Baik James maupun Gregory menyimpulkan bahwa ilmuwan yang tergabung dalam organisasi pencarian kehidupan ekstraterrestrial, Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) telah melakukan pendekatan yang salah selama setidaknya lima dekade.

Seperti ditulis dalam jurnal Astobiology, dua bersaudara Benfords mengatakan sinyal dari alien tidak dipancarkan ke segala arah namun, lebih mirip peluru, ditujukan ke satu sampai 10 gigahertz jarak gelombang elektromagnetik.

Dalil SETI bahwa alien mencoba menjalin kontak dengan manusia dengan cara memancarkan sinyal seperti mercusuar yang menyapu galaksi, dibantah dua bersaudara itu. Kata mereka, pesan yang dikirim lebih mungkin mirip Twitter yang bisa bertahan beberapa hari.

Benfords bersaudara juga mengatakan ilmuwan SETI telah mencari di tempat yang salah -- dengan mengarahkan teleskop radio ke bintang terdekat, berharap mendapatkan sinyal atau suara dari kehidupan alien.

"Broadcasting itu mahal dan membutuhkan banyak energi -- apalagi untuk mengirimkan sinyal melintasi tahun cahaya."

Seharusnya, SETI mencari alien di pusat galaksi"Banyak bintang yang miliaran tahun lebih tua dari Matahari -- pusat tata surya. Itu menunjukkan ada kemungkinan besar untuk membuat kontak dengan peradaban yang lebih maju dan ramai yang ada di galaksi kita," kata Gregory Benford.

Asteroid raksasa membawa emas ke bumi




BeritaUnik.net – Asteroid raksasa seukuran Pluto, mungkin telah membawa unsur emas dan unsur materi lainnya ke Bumi, demikian hasil dari penelitian terbaru saat ini.

Ilmuwan telah lama mengetahui, bahwa ada jenis unsur besi misterius yang ada di lapisan Bumi. Unsur-unsur besi tersebut, termasuk emas, cenderung untuk menggabungkan diri dengan baja dalam bentuk cair mereka. Demikian dilansir National Geographics, Jumat (10/12/2010).

Penjelasan terbaik adalah bahwa unsur-unsur misterius dibawa oleh benda angkasa, ketika Bumi masih berumur muda. Tapi yang menjadi perdebatan adalah benda asing apa yang membawa unsur-unsur misterius tersebut.

Berdasarkan pada simulasi komputer, penelitisan terbaru mengatakan, beberapa tabrakan benda-benda angkasa ke Bumi sekitar 4,5 juta tahun yang lalu adalah sumber dari unsur materi ini, yang mana benda-benda tersebut adalah asteroid.
Asteroid raksasa seukurang pluto membawa emas ke bumi !!

Wownya !

Bumi bukanlah satu-satunya objek yang mendapat pasokan unsur-unsur materi ini. Bulan juga Mars, juga ikut mendapatkan materi tersebut dari tabrakan asteroid tersebut dari waktu yang sama. Para ilmuwan juga mengatakan, bahwa benturan tersebut juga merupakan sumber dari air di Bulan.

“Elemen-elemen ini memberitahu kepada kita apa yang menabrak planet kita, serta apa dampak yang dihasilkan dari tubrukan tersebut,” ujar pimpinan studi William Bottke dari Southwest Research Institute di Boulder, Colorado.

7 Planet Di Luar Tata Surya Yang Di Duga Di Huni Oleh Alien !




Bertahun-tahun para peneliti dan ilmuwan antariksa meneliti planet-planet di luar Bumi dan sistem Tata Surya, mencari kemungkinan kehidupan di luar angkasa. Nah, berikut 7 planet terluar ya ng diduga dihuni alien.

7 Planet ini masuk dalam Habitable Exoplanets Catalog yang dikeluarkan oleh Planetary Habitability Laboratory University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo pada Kamis (6/12/2012) lalu. Semua foto planet ini adalah visualisasi seniman berdasar deskripsi dari ilmuwan.

Berikut 7 planet terluar yang dilansir Space.Com, Senin (10/12/2012):

1. Gliese 581g Penemuan planet ini kontroversoal. Ditemukan tahun 2010, namun beberapa kondisi planet ini masih dalam tahap konfirmasi. Namun University of Puerto Rico di Arecibo menyebutkan planet ini adalah kandidat puncak untuk tempat kehidupan alien. Jika terkonfirmasi, planet berbatu ini berjarak 20 tahun cahaya dari Matahari, dan berukuran 2-3 kali lebih besar dari Bumi. Planet ini mengorbit bintang Gliese 581 setiap 30 hari dalam konstelasi rasi bintang Libra.

2. Gliese 667Cc Gliesse 667Cc ini dijuluki juga 'super-Earth'. Posisinya dekat dengan Bumi, sekitar 22 tahun cahaya dalam konstelasi bintang Scorpius. Planet ini berukuran 4,5 kali Bumi dan butuh 28 hari buat orbit pada bintang induknya, GJ 667C. GJ 667C adalah bagian dari sistem bintang triple. Besarnya GJ 667C adalah sepertiga ukuran Matahari.

3. Kepler-22b Kepler-22 b merupakan planet yang lebih besar dari Bumi sekitar 2,4 kali. Planet ini berotasi mengelilingi bintang yang berukuran dan bersuhu sama dengan Matahari. Planet ini diperkirakan bersuhu 22 derajat Celcius. Jaraknya 600 tahun cahaya dari Matahari, dalam konstelasi Cygnus.

4. HD 40307g Planet HD 40307g ini berjarak 42 tahun cahaya dari Bumi dalam konstelasi bintang Pictor, dan mengorbit pada bintang induknya yang berjarak 90 juta km. Sebagai informasi, jarak Matahari-Bumi adalah 150 juta km. Jarak planet ini cukup dekat Bumi sehingga teleskop masa depan diharapkan bisa meneropong permukaannya.

5.HD 85512b Penemuan planet ini diumumkan pada 2011, sebagai bagian dari 50 penemuan High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher instrument (HARPS) di Chili. Planet ini besarnya 3,6 kali lebih besar dari Bumi. Jaraknya 35 tahun cahaya dari Matahari dan terletak di konstelasi bintang Vela. Planet ini mengorbit pada bintang induknya HD 85512. Para peneliti berharap suatu hari bisa mendeskripsikan air di permukaan planet ini.

6. Gliese 163c Planet ini berukuran 7 kali lebih besar dari Bumi, berjarak 50 tahun cahaya dari Bumi. Gliese 163 c mengorbit pada bintang induk yang redup setiap 26 hari dalam konstelasi bintang Dorado.

7. Gliese 581d Dalam penelitian, planet ini diduga memiliki atmosfer karbondioksida yang tebal. Ukurannya 7 kali Bumi, mengorbit pada bintang merah yang kerdil. Planet ini adalah sister planet dari planet Gliese 581g. Jaraknya 20 tahun cahaya dari Matahari, dan bisa dibilang planet ini adalah halaman belakang Bumi.

5 Pieces of Evidence That Suggests Intelligent Alien Life Exists

Skeptics and believers are constantly combating each other as to whether or not there is intelligent life in the universe. Skeptics use lack of evidence as their main offensive and defensive weapon, but here I will submit to you 5 amazing pieces of evidence that suggests that intelligent extraterrestrial life exists.

1. UFOs In Ancient History

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George Bernard Shaw once famously quipped, “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history”. This quote is fitting to this piece of evidence that suggests the UFO phenomenon has been around as long as human civilization has existed and yet it is consistently dismissed. Today many UFO sightings are often explained away as being the US military testing some new technological weapon or plane, but this explanation cannot be used in a time when human flight was impossible.
The painting above is titled “The Madonna with Saint Giovannino” and dates back to around the 15th century. The painting depicts the Virgin Mary in the foreground, and in the background is what appears to be a man looking up in awe at an object that is strikingly similar to our modern day perception of a UFO.
This is not the only example of UFOs in ancient art. There are literally hundreds of examples of objects in the sky in many paintings spanning across the centuries. Strangely, the majority of the paintings depict UFOS in connection with a spiritual figure or experience. This could be how the people of the period interpreted the things they were seeing or perhaps there is a literal connection between the spiritual and UFOs.
Erich von Däniken, author of the famous and controversial Chariots of The Gods, suggests that our gods and angles maybe intelligent aliens. In the Old Testament, The Book of Ezekiel discusses an encounter with a strange flying object made of metal that took the shape of a wheel. Inside were four living creatures that looked like humans. Many people believe the Bible to be the literal word of God; it should be especially hard for those people to ignore this evidence. It is the Gospel after all.
Many may have a hard time taking the theories of Däniken seriously, but even respected astrophysicist Carl Sagan believed that we should seriously consider the possibility that extraterrestrial contact occurred in the past, so we should not completely dismiss this idea.

2. Astronauts have seen UFOs

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Three days into the Apollo 11 flight the astronauts on board sent a strange message to mission control asking, “Do you have any idea where the S-4B is with respect to us?” The astronauts were asking where the final stage of the rocket was, which had been detached two days prior. The reason for this inquiry was because something was riding along side of the rocket and if it wasn’t part of the rocket, Apollo 11 had a visitor.
The crew on board did not want to make a big deal out of the object for fear that it would cause a panic and mission control would order the astronauts to abandon the mission. “The three of us were not going to blurt out, ‘hey Houston we got something moving along side of us and we don’t know what it is’ we weren’t about to do that…someone might of demanded we turn back because of aliens or whatever it is,” said astronaut Buzz Aldrin when discussing the situation at a later date.
Mission control did answer the astronaut’s cryptic question about the location of the S-4b unit. The unit was 6,000 miles from their location. What Aldrin and the other three astronauts were looking at was an Unidentified Flying Object exhibiting an intelligent flight path. In fact, according to Dr. David Baker, an Apollo 11 Senior Scientist, astronauts seeing UFOs is not uncommon and dates back to the early earth orbit space flights.
If your friend who works at the video store claims to have seen a sea monster, his story has very little credibility. If an experienced Naval Captain claims to have seen a sea monster then his sighting has tremendous credibility. If experienced and respected astronauts are seeing evidence of intelligent life outside of Earth it should also be taken very seriously.

3. The Wow Signal

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In 1977, at Ohio Sate University, The Big Ear radio telescope picked up an unusual signal. Big Ear used numbers and letters to determine the strength of a signal, 0 being meaningless noise and Z being a strong radio signal. An astronomer, Dr. Jerry R. Ehman, studying the data from the telescope was shocked when a radio signal clocking in at ‘6EQUJ5’ came from a seemingly empty spot in space. Ehman was so shocked that he circled the signal on the data sheet and simply wrote ‘Wow’.
The transmission lasted 37 seconds and came from the Sagittarius constellation. Even more interesting is the fact that the nearest star in that specific direction is 220 million light years away. In other words, the signal came from an empty spot in space. It is also interesting to note that the signal had all the characteristics of an interstellar broadcast.
Some have tried to explain that the signal is somehow of an Earthly origin, but this seems unlikely as the signal was in a frequency that is internationally banned on Earth. The conclusion that has the most evidence going for it is that it is of an extraterrestrial origin, and because there are no stars near where the signal was found one can conclude that it came from a spacecraft manned by intelligent entities.

4. The Drake Equation

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N = the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which communication might be possible;
R* = the average rate of star formation per year in our galaxy
ƒp = the fraction of those stars that have planets
ne = the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets
ƒℓ = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop life at some point
fi = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop intelligent life
ƒc = the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space
L = the length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space.
Radio astronomer Frank Drake developed the Drake equation so he could estimate the number of planets harboring intelligent life in the galaxy by taking into consideration the factors listed above. A rigorous estimate using the Drake Equation was implemented in 2001, which also took into consideration the number of planets that are in the habitable zone (The habitable zone is an area around a star were water is in liquid form, temperature is ideal, and photosynthesis is possible). The results found that hundreds of thousands of life-bearing planets statistically should exist. It also suggested that a habitable planet like the Earth should exist just a few hundred light years away.
I find it unfair if I did not now also give equal mention to the Fermi paradox. The Fermi paradox states that if so many planets exist with intelligent life why is there a lack of contact between the intelligent life and us and why is there such a lack of physical evidence of said intelligent life. The paradox exists in that the Drake equation statistically proves life should be abundant and yet physical evidence says otherwise. It is hard to combat the arguments from the Fermi paradox except that some physical evidence does exist as you can see from this writing.

5. SETI Radio Signal February 2003

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In 2003, astronomers with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) used a massive telescope to examine sections of the sky where they had previously found unexplained radio signals. They found another radio signal that was even stronger than what they had previously found.
The signal came from an area in space where there are no planets or stars and strangely was at a frequency that hydrogen absorbs, ensuring that the signal would be strong and could travel great distances. The signal was detected on three separate occasions.
“The signal is moving rapidly in frequency and you would expect that to happen if you are looking at a transmitter on a planet that’s rotating very rapidly and where the civilization is not correcting the transmission for the motion of the planet,” Says USB researcher Eric Korpela. Considering the signal operates as if it is intelligently operated and the fact that it was detected multiple times one has to consider this SETI signal the best candidate for proof of intelligent life on other planets.

Top 10 Interesting Questions About Aliens

That we’re not alone in the universe is something no one knows but most suspect – not only because it is highly probable that there is another advanced form of life somewhere out there, but also because it is a highly fascinating subject that does a beautiful job at spurring our imagination. However, in imagining what such form of life could look like or behave like, we readily make a number of anthropocentric assumptions (that is, we assume they are like us to an unnecessary degree), some of which we are not even aware of. Our common idea of what an extraterrestrial being should look like has been largely shaped by depictions in arts and entertainment that were, in one way or another, created to be relatable and convenient for storytelling purposes, while compromising verisimilitude. If we live in a multiverse, then practically any kind of being we could possibly conceive has existed or will exist at some point. But let’s pretend that humanity is on the verge of making first contact with a single species, a civilization that dwells on a planet close to ours. What can and what can we not assume about them? What do we have to wonder about them? Let us explore, in the spirit of speculation, a number of factors that merit some thought – and how they are related to both science fiction and real science.


10. Appearance
 
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It’s not just that we imagine them to be humanoid (standing on two legs, two limbs coming out of the sides of the upper torso, a head with a nose, a mouth, ears, and eyes); it’s that we imagine them to appear earthling-like at all. Even when we try to diverge most from the typical humanoid appearance that science fiction gives to extraterrestrials, we can’t help but envision them as sharing a general morphology with Earth’s fauna: reptiles, crustaceans, or, at best, insects – only of human size or slightly bigger. The rationale behind this is actually not as faulty as it may seem. If we build our imagined extraterrestrial from the ground up, we make anthropocentric assumptions about their morphology out of necessity. After all, we are the only intelligent species that we know of, and therefore the only instance that we can study of evolution reaching such a state. First, we assume that any intelligent species had to arise from some sort of biochemistry similar to ours. Then the resulting life form had to achieve a multicellular state, so as to develop a dedicated brain. It had to develop a skeleton of sorts to cope with gravity, and its body had to grow up to a minimum size such that its brain developed the level of cognition that we enjoy. It had to grow at least a pair of limbs to move around with and a pair to use tools. It also has to have a set of senses to interact with its world and a body big and strong enough to thrive in its ecosystem. In the end, it’s just simpler to not think outside the box.
That said, we’re basing all of this on the idea that their world is like ours – and that evolution took a very similar set of paths that resulted in similar biodiversity. But they don’t have to be the same size we are. For example, for all we know, there could be sapient extraterrestrials the size of a small building or the size of a freight train. They don’t have to have a head or limbs resembling what we’ve seen on this planet. They don’t even need to have a skin instead of, say, a cellulose wall or something made of an exotic compound. Even more exciting to contemplate are extraterrestrial life forms that don’t share our biochemistry at all. It is theorised, for example, that silicon-based beings would be of a crystalline structure and thrive in high-temperature places, though silicon biochemistry is not as flexible and apt for life as carbon’s is.



9. Energy?
 
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Whatever shape they have, extraterrestrials need some sort of energy source to live – that much we know, at least in our universe with our particular laws of physics. What could it be, then? Evolution is a powerful force, but I doubt there are beings with integrated cores prancing around fusing hydrogen atoms like it’s going out of fashion in the vicinity of our galaxy. Again, this variable powerfully hinges on their biochemistry, and the effects are many to be left without discussion. Given the availability of the elements that make up the compounds that make us up, it isn’t a stretch to think that there are aliens who have a diet similar in chemistry to ours. But whatever they specifically eat defines many of their characteristics and traits, ranging from their anatomy to their social structure to their economy to their attitudes toward other life forms. Do they see us as prey; as predators; as competition; as the intrusive dwellers of an earthy, delicious planet; as a waste of precious iron and other minerals in our bloodstream; or as nasty, smelly blobs of excrement? Conversely, are their diets something that makes them inherently disgusting and undesirable to us (say, ammonia-based beings)? Are they out in search of food or is their planet so plentiful and their hearts so altruistic that they are out to feed the starved (and their definition of “starved” so convenient that it includes us but doesn’t make us their inferior)?
Another interesting but less meaningful energy-related question is, of course, how they power their infrastructure and technology. Presumably, whatever they do to keep their ships afloat or their lights on is something we could apply to our own technology, if it is more efficient than our own energy-extraction processes and as long as it isn’t based on a resource that their planet has and ours doesn’t.



8. What’s their Story?
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It has taken life approximately 3.5 billion years to get from our last universal ancestor (i.e., the most recent forebear of all organisms on Earth) to where we are today. Along the way, there have been natural disasters, giant dinosaurs, more natural disasters, early empires, religions, nations, navies, colonization, Theodore Roosevelt, world wars, and a cold war. Whatever we’re responsible for, we’re equal parts proud and ashamed of, but undoubtedly, it is a very interesting story to tell. What do they have to tell us, then? Did their evolution yield as diverse an array of life forms as ours did? If so, did their planet endure extinction events, perhaps involving other intelligent species? Did their civilization break up into different nations? If so, is their world still governed by different nations?
Again, the way they would approach us would be, in more than one way, defined by their history. A society unaccustomed to violence might be benevolent to a fault, almost naive, in their first interactions with another intelligent society. Then again, it could also be exceedingly cautious, aware that not all civilizations regard the concept of harmony with such devotion. A society that has become used to conflict, on the other hand, is likely to have developed both a more sophisticated diplomacy apparatus and a military – and the extent to which they rely on either is something we can only speculate about. Some, including Jared Diamond and Stephen Hawking, have speculated that, if we ever come into contact with a civilization that is superior to us and behaves more or less like us, then, judging by the outcome of the most significant encounters between two societies that’s occurred throughout human history, it is likely that the superior civilization would come to dominate us, perhaps through a combination of hard power (force or coercion) and soft power (non-intimidating persuasion).



7. Expectations of Us
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It is our hope that any contact we make with extraterrestrial beings will have a mutually beneficial outcome – scientific cooperation, space exploration, the sharing of resources, and perhaps even a shared appreciation of some sort of common art. Needless to say, we have also contemplated a variety of negative outcomes involving their use of violence upon us. But just because they don’t use violence doesn’t mean they can’t possibly be subjugating us. We ourselves use plants and animals for our own self-preservation purposes, and while some of us make efforts to improve the way we treat animals, the fact remains that we condition their lives to our will, regardless of whether they are aware of it. Could it be that a more advanced civilization would want to use us in some way, whether we know it or not? Could it be that they, like us, have always expected to be contacted by a superior race, and so they are as unprepared and eager to be baffled as we are? As I suggested above, many scientists are of the opinion that going out of our way to make contact with aliens is not something humanity should do. Our first-contact aliens might be as wary of making contact with us as we are of them – and if history serves to indicate anything, they might be completely justified.



6. How Intelligent?
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Unfortunately, the extent to which we can speculate about the capabilities of other intelligent beings is limited by our own intelligence. If they are smarter than us, we can conceive them to be more proficient in science and engineering. Just like a Neanderthal would probably imagine (if he even could imagine) more sophisticated beings to be much more formidable hunters and tool makers, while being unable to conceive art, diplomacy, metaphysics, or semantics the way we see them. What sort of concepts could a more developed intelligence conceive that we can’t even begin to comprehend, no matter how much our science and technology advance? What level of insight into the nature of life do they have?
Again, going back to the Neanderthal analogy, just imagine that we come into contact with a race that’s just as intellectually capable as the Neanderthal: they would understand their encounter with us very differently from the way we would understand it. They are limited by their brain and would not comprehend our efforts to communicate with them; meanwhile, we would be frustrated and disappointed, as our interaction with them would prove fruitless. Now imagine that we come into contact with a race that’s much, much smarter than us, such that their advantage over us is the same as ours is over the Neanderthal. Would they be frustrated by our inability to do and comprehend what they can do and comprehend? Or is there a minimum level of intelligence that we’ve already achieved, past which all forms of communication are possible? (The same way there is a minimum level of intelligence that dogs have achieved, past which they are as capable as we are of identifying their “loved ones.”)
The concept of cosmicism, developed by fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, is more or less related to this issue, as it describes the inability of humanity to comprehend much greater forces that rule the universe, and proposed that the magnitude of these forces renders us insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

 





5. Developed AI?

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This is a rather common prompt for works of science fiction (a recent and notable example being the stellar video game series Mass Effect), but the underlying question is every bit as significant as it’s made out to be by works of fiction. We know – again, via science fiction – that there exists the risk of developing a form of artificial intelligence that may not act in humanity’s best interests, which could pose a threat to our existence. It may sound like an overblown prediction, but the importance of ensuring that development of AI be carried out responsibly is very real; in fact, there is an actual organization dedicated to just that, known as the Singularity Institute. Assuming that a rogue AI’s interests clash with those of every other life form, though, our concern should be whether any form of rogue AI emerges anywhere in our interplanetary vicinity.
Unfortunately, we do not have control over what civilizations that haven’t had contact with us do, and so there is a probability that someone somewhere, unbeknownst to us, is developing a form of artificial intelligence, if they haven’t already. The probability of this scenario is fairly low, and it’s even less probable that a species of such intelligence would not have a sense of precaution. Even then, it’s very, very unlikely that this could pose a threat to our existence. But it’s a question worth asking, and one that has produced some quality works of fiction.



4. Cognition and Emotion
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Regardless of their level of intelligence, we cannot assume that aliens think the way we do. It’s not necessary to our construct of a hypothetical alien race that their memory functions the same way ours does, or that they have the same notion of self that we do, or that they communicate through spoken language, or that they think of space and time like we do. It would surprise you how much our cognitive processes can vary across cultures; think, for example, of the Piraha people in the Brazilian Amazon and the words of Carl Sagan, “the simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, is an elaborate logical underpinning.” When asked to count objects, the Piraha seem to have little understanding of numeracy, using only three words, more or less equivalent to – “roughly one,” “more than one,” and “many” – to refer to amounts. These are your fellow human beings, who are as physically evolved as you and I are and live in the same environment; now extrapolate this difference to the potential gap between how the aliens’ minds work and how ours do! Numeracy is not the only possible difference.
Equally intriguing is the idea that they may feel very different emotions from us. Many of our emotions are hypothesized to be the byproducts of evolution, and so the way we feel emotions has been shaped by our own, unique evolutionary history. It is quite possible, then, that whatever alien civilization we make first contact with does not understand the purpose of laughter, doesn’t feel spite, or isn’t scared or awed by the things that scare and awe us. Conversely, it is also possible that they feel emotions that we cannot even begin to comprehend. This would make interplanetary diplomacy less easy than we wish it were.



3. Knowledge of the Universe
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Whether (or where) there are extraterrestrial civilizations is only one of the very many things that we do not know about our universe. Presumably, some civilization out there already comprehends most, if not all (what we would call the “Theory of Everything”), physical phenomena to a much more sophisticated degree than we do, has been able to elucidate the nature of dark matter and dark energy, counts with a far grander cartographic database of the universe than we do, and knows much more about where in the universe there is life. Some of these civilizations might even understand how to use the topology of space-time to their advantage, a topic that has been thoroughly explored by our imagination. Their willingness to share this knowledge and technology with us would no doubt benefit us immensely, as well as them.
However, as stated above, it is possible that we are simply too limited in intelligence to comprehend the work and the understanding that the other civilization is capable of. However, it is obvious that humans have not stopped evolving, and there exists the possibility that from us will emerge a more intelligent species, or at least more intelligent humans, twenty thousand years from now or a million years from now.



2. Prolonging Existence 
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Existential threats vary from local (say, a plague) to universal (the Big Rip), but no one is completely devoid of them. In fact, the grander in scale and the more beings they affect, the more inevitable they can potentially be. We can eradicate a disease or prevent nuclear holocaust, but we can’t prevent a gamma ray burst from firing straight at us or a supernova from wreaking havoc. Such undertakings seem impossible to us, but even they seem trivial compared to the ultimate extinction event: the universe’s eventual transition into a state unsuitable for life. This can happen 97 trillion years from now, when stars cease to fuse; 1034 years from now, when protons start to decay; 10100 years from now, when all that remains is photons; or any day now, if we are in a false-vacuum state. Presumably, any intelligent form of life would want to prolong its existence indefinitely, whether as it is or in some sort of elevated state. What steps might other civilizations take to ensure their continued existence, then?
Not too long ago, when the Big Crunch seemed like the most plausible end-of-the-universe scenario, a physicist named Frank Tipler proposed that the solution would be to create an infinitely powerful computer, which would harness all the energy created by the Big Crunch. With this energy, he argued, the computer could “bring back to life… all life that ever existed”. In the very last second of objective time (i.e., “physical” time), the computer could create an infinite amount of “subjective” time in which it could emulate all possible quantum states of the universe – including every life form that ever existed. The takeaway from this is that, as self-preserving life forms, we meet our awareness of the finitude of the universe with ideas to overcome it and make the existence of life infinite (if only subjectively so – but does that matter?).



1. Where are they?
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Within our narrow (but, in all likelihood, accurate) idea of what kind of planets can sustain life and using our verdant technology, we have already discovered a few star systems with one or two planets that fulfill our criteria. The bad news is that there is a rather long stretch between being able to sustain life and being able to sustain advanced, intelligent civilizations, and there is little reason to believe that one of the rather few habitable planets that we’ve identified actually harbors intelligent life. The good news is that we’ve explored such an insignificant corner of the universe for life that the mere fact that there are habitable planets within earshot means the probability of there being life somewhere out there is excitingly high. Again, the bad news is that physical constraints prevent us from getting to such faraway places within any reasonable time-frame. Faster-than-light travel is not as yet understood to be possible, unless we are able to meddle with the very fabric of space-time. Even then, if the Big Rip hypothesis turns out to be true, every second that passes makes intergalactic travel more and more implausible.
But supposing we are one day able to distort space-time to travel to faraway places, where should we look? It’s not just planets at a certain distance from their stars that we should look for. The size of the star, its luminosity, its dark spots, the way the planet revolves around the star (e.g., tidal lock), the atmospheric components of the planet, the planet’s rotation and tilt, the size and distance of other planets orbiting around the same star (which could stabilize the habitable planet’s orbit and shield it from asteroids and comets), and even the shape and activity of the galaxy are all important factors to consider.
Regardless, we’re not flying out in search of aliens any time soon. If we are to see them in our lifetimes, it’s probably because they will come to us – not the other way around – but I don’t think we’ll see that very soon, either. Regardless, extraterrestrial life is a captivating subject, and I do hope that one day humans will greet creatures of another planet and establish a mutually beneficial relationship. The end of a life-sustaining universe is not an encouraging scenario to contemplate, so it would be nice to know we’re not the only ones concerned with preserving life forever.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

unique solar system facts !

Here are some of the best known of it :

  • The Sun makes up 99.86% of the Solar System's mass! That means that all the planets put together (including Jupiter) as well as all the asteroids only make up about 0.14% of the Solar System's mass

  • Jupiter's magnetic field is so massive that it pours billions of Watts into Earths magnetic field every day!

  • A massive body 100km wide travelling at over 512,000km/h crashed into Mercury to form the Caloris Basin. The impaact was so great it sent shockwaves round Mercury creating its hilly lineated terrain.

  • A pinhead of the Sun's raw material could kill someone up to 160 kilometers away!

  • The length of a Plutonian year is 248 of our years! That means that one orbit of the Sun takes about 2 and a half Earth centuries. That's a quarter of a Millennium!

  • The Olympus Mons (on Mars) is the largest Volcanic mountain in the Solar System. It is 600 km across and 27 km high! And you thought Mount Everest (about 8 and a half km high) was tall!

  • One of the solar system facts is that A Supernova explosion produces more energy in its first ten seconds than the Sun during the whole of its 10 billion year lifetime and that for a brief period, it creates more energy than the rest of a galaxy put together!!

  • The comet with the longest ever recorded tail is the Great Comet of 1843. Its tail stretched over 800 million kilometres! This is about the same distance the Earth is from Jupiter!
  • The energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago - it spent most of this time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once it had left the Sun!

  • Almost all of the heavier elements in your body (e.g calcium, iron, carbon) were made somewhere in supernovae explosions!

  • One of another interesting solar system facts is that Some rocks found on Earth are actually pieces of Mars!

  • Saturn has such a low density that it would float if put in water!

  • Due to the fact that water expands when heated, the Atantic ocean increases in width by 3cm every year!

  • Some volcanoes on Jupiter's moon eject material at speeds of up to 1km/second! This is about 20 times faster than the volcanoes here on Earth can manage it!

Salah Satu Penggemar Ufo, Ungkap Bahwa ALien Tak Pernah Ada Sama Sekali




Selama ini Ufo beserta makhluk luar angkasa lain memang menjadi topik khusus bagi warga dunia khususnya Masyarakat Amerika Serikat. Bahkan sebagian besar warga Amerika percaya bahwa memang ada aktifitas kehidupan makhluk lain di luar angkasa. Hal ini dikaitkan dengan seringnya ada penampakan-penampakan pesawat terbang di Amerika yang sebenarnya belum dapat dipastikan kebenarannya. Penampaka-penampakan itu juga membuat banyaknya orang yang penasaran sehingga dibuatlah studi baru bernama Ufologi, ilmu yang meneliti khusus mengenai kehidupan luar angkasa khususnya Ufo.



Salah satu penggemar Ufo dari Inggris selama beberapa dekade ini telah telah mengamati langit untuk mencari tanda-tanda aktivitas alien. Namun ia tak menemui aktifitas yang di maksudkannya. Untuk itu ia mengakui bahwa ufo dan makhluk luar angkasa yang sering di ceritakan mungkin memang tidak pernah ada sama sekali. Dia juga beralasan bahwa selama ini memang belum ada orang yang dapat membenarkan bahwa ada penampakan piring terbang di Bumi.

Menurut penggemar tersebut, kegagalan akan pengamatan terhadap luar angkasa ini mungkin dapat mengakhiri ilmu Ufologi karena secara nyata ilmu mungkin tidak berguna sama sekali untuk di pelajari. Tak hanya pria tersebut, puluhan penggemar lainnya juga merasakan hal yang sia-sia dalam meneliti makhluk luar angkasa. Bahkan rencananya minggu depan, kelompok penggemar dan salah satu organisasi terbesar yang juga meneliti permasalah Uf akan mengadakan konferensi untuk membahas perlu tidaknya penelitian mengenai makhluk luar angkasa.

UFO Tertangkap Kamera di Pelantikan Presiden Obama


Washington - Sebuah UFO tertangkap terekam di sebuah video sedang melayang di atas pelantikan presiden Amerika Serikat Barack Obama pada hari Senin (21/01/2013) waktu setempat.

Ini berarti mengulang kejadian ketika pertama kali ia dilantik sebagai presiden AS pada tahun 2009 lalu. Mungkinkah ini semakin membuktikan dugaan keterkaitan antara UFO dan AS?

Pada video yang diunggah ke YouTube tersebut terlihat sebuah UFO yang melayang di dekat monumen Washington dalam proses pelantikan yang disiarkan kantor berita ternama AS, FOX NEWS.

Ini persis seperti pelantikan pertama Obama pada tahun 2009 ketika ditempat yang sama terekam video penampakan UFO yang juga secara resmi diberitakan FOX NEWS.

UFO telah lama dikaitkan ada hubungannya dengan Amerika Serikat. Banyaknya penampakan UFO dan penculikan oleh makhluk angkasa luar yang yang sering dilaporkan terjadi di negara adidaya tersebut semakin menguatkan dugaan ini.

Peristiwa Roswell dan keberadaan fasilitas militer berwujud bangunan misterius 'Area 51' di gurun Nevada, serta benteng Fort Knox adalah faktor utama yang mendukung hipotesa ini.

Pada tahun 1947 di dekat Roswell, New Mexico dilaporkan sebuah UFO jatuh dan ledakannya sempat terlihat oleh beberapa warga setempat, namun kemudian seketika militer AS datang dan lalu secara misterius menutup akses tempat jatuhnya UFO tersebut.

Disebutkan banyak terdapat truk bermuatan besar untuk membersihkan semua bukti yang diduga berupa puing dan mayat alien dari ledakan itu. Namun, hingga saat ini pemerintah AS tetap menutup mulut tentang peristiwa Roswell.

Sedangkan Area 51 dikenal sebagai tempat penyimpanan bangkai-bangkai UFO yang jatuh dan juga beberapa mayat alien yang ditemukan dalam UFO tersebut.

Yang paling menarik adalah seorang mantan pegawai disana mengungkap bahwa ada sembilan hanggar pesawat besar di Area 51 beserta 9 pesawat UFO yang terparkir.

AS diduga melakukan penelitian terhadap UFO-UFO tersebut untuk menyelidiki teknologi canggihnya yang akan diadopsi pada pesawat-pesawat canggih milik AS, dan juga untuk berkomunikasi dengan makhluk angkasa luar.

Benteng Fort Knox di Kentucky juga sering dicurigai ada hubungannya dengan UFO dan makhluk angkasa luar. Pasalnya tidak diketahui secara pasti apa fungsi utama dari benteng sebesar ini selain untuk militer AS di waktu dahulu dan penelitian.

Banyak analis yang menyebutkan banyaknya penampakan UFO yang terjadi disekitarnya karena AS menyimpan jutaan ton cadangan emasnya di Fort Knox yang diincar oleh makhluk angkasa luar sebagai sumber tenaga utama mereka.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

10 Regions in the Universe Where Alien Life Might Exist

10 Regions in the Universe Where Alien Life Might Exist

Today, our aspiration of finding alien life out there became an obsession. We all believe that aliens exist and some of us are even certain that they have already reached Earth. Scientists are a little more reserved in this matter, but they do take several regions of our known Universe into consideration as potential places where life could have developed, or could develop in the near future. Here is a list of 10 regions where different forms of alien life could flourish:

1. Europa

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Apparently, scientists do believe that the search for alien life could start from the Jovian moon, with great chances of success. They even suggest that complex life might be sustained on this planet.  This is based on a theory that beneath the thick sheet of ice, there is a liquid ocean and on the assumption that Europa has enough oxygen to support both micro and macro fauna. Of course, no solid evidence exists so far.

2. Meteorites

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Up to this day, we know for sure that our planet was struck by no less than 22, 000 meteorites. If life could have arrived to Earth from outer space, these rocks must have been the “delivery system”. This is not quite as impossible as it may seem, since scientists have discovered in Antarctica what appears to be some microfossils on a meteorite from Mars. If this was true (after years of debate, scholars could not reach a conclusion), it would mean that the theory of “pansermia”, according to which life migrates from one planet to another, is true   as well.

3. Mars

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Traditionally, one of the best places to look for life is Mars. Despite its unfriendly environment, there is evidence that once, this planet was warm and welcoming. The Phoenix Mars Lander made a huge discovery in this area, in 2008. After digging in the Martian soil, it found large amounts of ice, which obviously means that once, there was water on this planet. Moreover, there are traces of methane In the Martian atmosphere, which suggests that alien life (in the form of bacteria) must be hiding somewhere on the planet, most probably deep under the surface.

4. Callisto

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Callisto is the second largest moon of Jupiter and until recently NASA scientists considered it nothing more than a dead satellite. Its very old surface bears the mark of many asteroids that crashed here.  However, since 1996, the possibility of an ocean beneath its surface arose, waking up the interest of the scientific community for this planet. Even though the conditions of Callisto are not as good as those on Europa, the possibility of some aquatic forms of life having evolved on this harsh planet still exists.

5. Enceladus

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Another of Saturn’s satellites gives even more hopes to the scientists. Enceladus is, apparently, one of the best options for alien life hunters. Casini(photo) was able to detect such chemical elements as carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen, essential compounds that make life on Earth possible.  Furthermore, a theoretical, yet not confirmed, buried ocean may represent a warmer environment in which life could flourish.

6. Titan

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Titan is Saturn’s largest satellite. It has some particular features to make it interesting : it is the only known moon to have a dense atmosphere; moreover, it is the only planet ,other than Earth, where surface liquids in stable form were found. Titan’s atmosphere does not allow life, at least not the kind of life we are familiar with. At -184⁰ C, no life form from Earth could survive. However, the surface includes landscapes similar to those of Earth: sand dunes, rivers and seas (of liquid methane, probably). There are even different seasons on Titan! In addition to these extraordinary (but not conclusive) similarities, CASINI orbiter, sent by NASA, found interesting chemical movements on Titan, which may be the result of some alien life.
7. Gilese 581d
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Gilese 581 is a far-away red dwarf star. Located in the Libra constellation, this star has several planets, among which Gilese 581 d. This exoplanet ( a planet outside the solar system),  is so special because it is believed to be the only known exoplanet located in a habitable zone (meaning at the right distance from its Sun-like star). Thus, it is possible that this planet has an atmosphere as well as liquid water running on its surface, which means that Earth-like forms of life may develop here.

8. Exoplanet HD 209458B

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This planet does not have a nice, inspiring name, it is true. However, it is not the name we are looking at, but its characteristics. Thus, despite from being really far from Earth (150 light years), scientists were able to discover and describe its chemical composition, with amazing results. Apparently, this is the second planet outside the solar system where elements which stand at the basis of life, as we know it, were found.

9. Orion Nebula

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A nebula is defined as an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen gas helium and other sorts of gases. Nebulae are often areas where new stars are forming. This is the case of the Orion Nebula, situated 1,500light-years from now, in the Milky Way. This place is not only of an amazing beauty, but also a very interesting region from the point of view of potential alien life. The combination of such chemical substances as water, carbon monoxide, methanol, sulfur dioxide and many others which are known to be essential in the life developing processes is very promising for scientists.

10. Red Giant Stars

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Red Giant stars are NOT a good place for alien life to start. However, they may be the cause of it: when a star is about to die, it suddenly explodes into its red giant phase. This means that it will quickly grow in size and intensity and will cause faraway, frozen planets or exoplanets to become life-friendly. Ice blocks would melt, releasing water, life’s favorite medium, and its brightness would bring light to places that had only known darkness. Such new, improved conditions might give birth to alien microorganisms.

10 Strange Alien Abductions or Alien Encounters

10 Strange Alien Abductions or Alien Encounters

Rocker Sammy Hagar recently went public with his claim that he was abducted by aliens. Manypeople, some of them famous, over the years have made similar claims. Whether you believe inUFOs, aliens, or not, it’s clear that these people truly believe that they have made otherworldlytrips with aliens. Here are ten of the weirdest alien abduction stories of all time.

1. Sammy Hagar


In an interview with the MTV Hive in March 2011, rock singer Sammy Hagar recountsan alien abduction story. The interview, which was in conjunction with the release of hismemoirs, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, explores Hagar’s dreams of alien abductionand actual belief that “[Aliens] were plugged into me. It was a download situation. This waslong before computers or any kind of wireless… Especially back a few decades ago, whenthis stuff happened to me. I couldn’t talk about it because I didn’t know how to explain it. Ididn’t understand the technology. But now I’m pretty sure it was a wireless situation. Either adownload or upload. They were tapped into my brain and the knowledge was transferred back and forth. I could see them and everything while it was happening. There was a visual involved,almost like … I don’t know.”

2. Betty and Barney Hill


Husband and wife Betty and Barney Hill have one of the classic alien abduction stories of all time. Driving home from a trip in 1961, they say they noticed a strange light in the sky following them. By the time they made it home, they realized that they couldn’t account for two hours of time. After being hypnotized by a psychiatrist, the couple recalled their alien abduction and being surrounded by human-looking aliens with wrap-around eyes. Betty even recalled having a needle stuck into her navel by one of them. Many skeptics poo-pooed the Hills’ story, but others believed their journey was real.

3. Ronald Reagan


This story may be hearsay, but here goes. Actress Shirley MacLaine related a story she said was told to her by entertainer Lucille Ball back when Ronald Reagan was still an actor. Ball claims that Reagan and his wife Nancy were late arriving at a party. When they finally got there, Ball said Reagan took her aside and said on the way there, a UFO had landed near their vehicle. It has been said that Reagan told Ball that a ladder appeared and an alien climbed out of the craft, and proceeded to tell Reagan to quit acting work and go into politics. While the Reagans weren’t abducted by aliens, if this story is true, it may explain how Reagan made the decision to go into politics and later became President of the United States. This story sounds a bit far-fetched, but what else do you expect from the queen of weird phenomena, Ms. MacLaine (who has had herself insured against alien abduction)?

4. Russian Leader Kirsan Ilyumzhinov


Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the leader of Russia’s southern region of Kalymkia, told a Russian television news host that he believes he was abducted by aliens in 1997.  Ilyumzhinov says that he taken from his Moscow apartment aboard a spacecraft by human-like creatures wearing yellow spacesuits. He goes on to claim that the aliens were on Earth to take “samples,” and that they gave him a tour of their ship. Some Russian politicians have urged current Russian president   Dmitry Medvedev  to investigate Ilyumzhinov’s claim, fearing that he told the aliens state secrets.

5. Stan Romanek


Stan Romanek claims to have seen his first UFO in Denver in 2001. Since that time, he claims to have seen many UFOs, have photos of UFOs, and to have been personally touched by extraterrestrials. Romanek says that aliens knocked on his door in the middle of the night and took him outside onto his balcony and performed some sort of operation on him in an unknown location.  Romanek has gone on to write books and make films about his and others’ alien abduction experiences.

6. Antonio Villas Boas


Boas claims to have been abducted by aliens in 1957 and sexually assaulted by them. Boas reported seeing strange lights in the sky about 10 days prior to his abduction from his family’s farm. He was out working in the fields at 1 am one night when he says aliens landed and grabbed him, took him aboard their ship, and he was subsequently sexually assaulted by a female succubus. He was returned to his tractor about 5:30 am. After this encounter, physicians found Boas was suffering from radiation poisoning and had physical marks consistent with an actual abduction experience.

7. Travis Walton


In 1975, worker Travis Walton and some co-workers say they were coming home from work and saw an object in the sky. They stopped the truck and Walton got out to get a better look. Suddenly, according to the men, Walton was struck by a beam of light and knocked to the ground. His friends sped away in the truck, and came back later to find that Walton had vanished. Walton was not found for five days, when he finally returned, very weak and ill. Walton said he remembered being on board a spaceship with small aliens with large eyes. This story was later made into the movie and book “Fire in the Sky.”

8. Kelly Cahill


Strangely enough,  most alien abduction stories over the years have been related by men. Kelly Cahill’s story is one exception. In 1993, Cahill and her family were driving to their home in Australia after midnight when they came upon a bright, blinding light. The next thing she knew, Cahill says, was that it was an hour later and she felt very calm, except for the fact that she had lost an hour’s worth of time. Cahill later noticed strange marks on her body and had unexplained tiredness and an infection for the next week. Cahill finally did remember many foul-smelling aliens abducting her and her family.

9. Grace Askew


Another Australian woman who claims to have had alien encounters is Grace Askew. She claims to have first seen a UFO when driving around with her girlfriends one night. Then two weeks later, her 15 year old son was screaming at night and said there was a presence in his room and a strange sound. She looked outside and saw the same UFO she’d seen two weeks ago, this time witnessed by her husband as well.

10. Linda Napolitano


Yet another woman with an alien abduction story, Linda Napolitano claims to have been abducted from her New York apartment in 1989 by two gray aliens who performed medical procedures on her. This was witnessed by two men who verified that they saw the abduction take place. Napolitano claimed to have almost no memory of the abduction but noted the passing of time.

7 Planet Di Luar Tata Surya Yang Di Duga Di Huni Oleh Alien



Bertahun-tahun para peneliti dan ilmuwan antariksa meneliti planet-planet di luar Bumi dan sistem Tata Surya, mencari kemungkinan kehidupan di luar angkasa. Nah, berikut 7 planet terluar ya ng diduga dihuni alien.

7 Planet ini masuk dalam Habitable Exoplanets Catalog yang dikeluarkan oleh Planetary Habitability Laboratory University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo pada Kamis (6/12/2012) lalu. Semua foto planet ini adalah visualisasi seniman berdasar deskripsi dari ilmuwan.

Berikut 7 planet terluar yang dilansir Space.Com, Senin (10/12/2012):

1. Gliese 581g Penemuan planet ini kontroversoal. Ditemukan tahun 2010, namun beberapa kondisi planet ini masih dalam tahap konfirmasi. Namun University of Puerto Rico di Arecibo menyebutkan planet ini adalah kandidat puncak untuk tempat kehidupan alien. Jika terkonfirmasi, planet berbatu ini berjarak 20 tahun cahaya dari Matahari, dan berukuran 2-3 kali lebih besar dari Bumi. Planet ini mengorbit bintang Gliese 581 setiap 30 hari dalam konstelasi rasi bintang Libra.

2. Gliese 667Cc Gliesse 667Cc ini dijuluki juga 'super-Earth'. Posisinya dekat dengan Bumi, sekitar 22 tahun cahaya dalam konstelasi bintang Scorpius. Planet ini berukuran 4,5 kali Bumi dan butuh 28 hari buat orbit pada bintang induknya, GJ 667C. GJ 667C adalah bagian dari sistem bintang triple. Besarnya GJ 667C adalah sepertiga ukuran Matahari.

3. Kepler-22b Kepler-22 b merupakan planet yang lebih besar dari Bumi sekitar 2,4 kali. Planet ini berotasi mengelilingi bintang yang berukuran dan bersuhu sama dengan Matahari. Planet ini diperkirakan bersuhu 22 derajat Celcius. Jaraknya 600 tahun cahaya dari Matahari, dalam konstelasi Cygnus.

4. HD 40307g Planet HD 40307g ini berjarak 42 tahun cahaya dari Bumi dalam konstelasi bintang Pictor, dan mengorbit pada bintang induknya yang berjarak 90 juta km. Sebagai informasi, jarak Matahari-Bumi adalah 150 juta km. Jarak planet ini cukup dekat Bumi sehingga teleskop masa depan diharapkan bisa meneropong permukaannya.

5.HD 85512b Penemuan planet ini diumumkan pada 2011, sebagai bagian dari 50 penemuan High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher instrument (HARPS) di Chili. Planet ini besarnya 3,6 kali lebih besar dari Bumi. Jaraknya 35 tahun cahaya dari Matahari dan terletak di konstelasi bintang Vela. Planet ini mengorbit pada bintang induknya HD 85512. Para peneliti berharap suatu hari bisa mendeskripsikan air di permukaan planet ini.

6. Gliese 163c Planet ini berukuran 7 kali lebih besar dari Bumi, berjarak 50 tahun cahaya dari Bumi. Gliese 163 c mengorbit pada bintang induk yang redup setiap 26 hari dalam konstelasi bintang Dorado.

7. Gliese 581d Dalam penelitian, planet ini diduga memiliki atmosfer karbondioksida yang tebal. Ukurannya 7 kali Bumi, mengorbit pada bintang merah yang kerdil. Planet ini adalah sister planet dari planet Gliese 581g. Jaraknya 20 tahun cahaya dari Matahari, dan bisa dibilang planet ini adalah halaman belakang Bumi.