Io As A Potential Alien Habitat And Odds Of Finding Alien Life By 2013 Placed At 100 To 1

Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g ABODES - When it comes to where extraterrestrial life might dwell in our own solar system, Jupiter's moon Europa often grabs the spotlight. However, its extraordinarily volcanic sibling Io might be a possible habitat as well. See article.g LIFE - Entertainment Betting Lines have formulated odds on the possibility that alien life will be proven in the near future. The odds? By the year 2013, 100 to 1. See article.g INTELLIGENCE - Relative to their size, humans have the biggest brains on the planet. Check out the guy sitting next to you on the bus: hunkered beneath a fringe of moussed hair and a few millimeters of skull are three crinkly pounds of brain - the only substantive difference between you and species you regard as food or pets. See article. Note: This article is from 2002.g COSMICUS - Famed Mercury astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, is urging NASA to keep its space shuttles flying beyond their planned 2010 retirement to fill a gap in U.S spaceflight capability until a suitable replacement arises. See article.g LEARNING - Book alert: Seth Shostak, Senior Scientist at SETI Institute, Alex Barnett, Executive Director of Chabot Space and Science Center. Together, Seth and Alex produced a planetarium program simply entitled SETI. "Cosmic Company" complements the planetarium program and brings their ideas and delightful illustrations of alien beings to your home. They explore the possibility of alien a life, and the consequences of receiving a signal from the cosmos. Why might scientists think sentient life might exist on other worlds? How can we discover it? What might alien life be like? Entertaining and informative, this hard cover book is lavishly illustrated. (Hardcover: Cambridge University Press, 162 pages, 2003).g IMAGINING - Psychologist Frederick Malmstrom, currently a visiting scholar at the U.S. Air Force Academy, believes that "visions" of space aliens are actually the image of the prototypical female face that is hardwired into every baby human's brain. When Malmstrom altered a picture of a woman in a way consistent with the characteristics of a newborn's vision (astigmatism and a shallow focal plane), the result looked very much like a big-eyed alien. See article. Note: This article is from 2005.g AFTERMATH - The action plan in case an ETI signal is found - "A Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence" - is really only a gentlemen's agreement. See article. Note: This article is from 2001.Get your SF book manuscript edited