Apparently the vegetable kingdom in Mars, instead of having green for a dominant colour, is of a vivid blood-red tint—H.G. WellsAccording to Nancy Y. Kiang (biometeorologist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies) green aliens are so passé. Well, she may have a point. In a fascinating article in Scientific American (April, 2008), Kiang [...]
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What Color is Your Alien?
June 16th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Tags: Earth · NASA · alien life · astronomy · biosignature · exobiology · extrasolar world · habitable zone · light spectrum · photosynthesis · planets · science · space · star · star type
Critique of the Motion Picture "Contact"
February 25th, 2008 · 12 Comments
The opening sequence of Contact tells the entire story… It is both spectacular and humbling at the same time as we begin with a view of Earth gleaming in a sunrise. An almost frantic jumble of broadcasts— news, TV shows, music—assail our ears. As we pull back from Earth and pass the outer planets, we [...]
Tags: Contact · Jodi Foster · aliens · motion picture · movie review · movies · science fiction · space
