extraterrestrial

Speculation, theory, UFOs and Aliens. Are we alone in this universe or is there life outside Earth?

The Rogue
A hot, summer night. New Mexico. July 8, 1947. A black limousine sits dark and idling on the opposite side of a security fence at the end of a runway, along the exterior perimeter of a military base.
By Brian M. Gelinas6 years ago in Futurism
The Little Black Book
The Little Black Book Michael gripped the handle bars of his old rusty bike a little tighter than usual as he turned the corner. He had a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach, like something big was about to happen.
By Natalie Sherlock6 years ago in Futurism
How We Leased a Way Station for Intergalactic Immigrants
As I think back on it, I might have known something was wrong by the look of him. But we were eager beavers, ready to believe almost anything--and so we did.
By Taya Cook6 years ago in Futurism
Ku
The Arrival The morning sun tried to break through the ash clouds above New York City as the black Limo drove down first avenue. Her once fiery glow muffled by the ash from the yellowstone eruption. There was beauty in this new sun. A light ring of blue haze seemed to dance around it’s circle. New Yorkers hustled about town with masks on and large umbrellas in their hands. They were grateful it had not yet rained today as it seemed to every day since the event. The rain that fell, a deep red from the salinity in the clouds being baked by the sun above. Scientists called it the Dunaliella Effect. This salty blood water infiltrated the fresh water supply and the government scrambled to build new desalination plants throughout the country to keep up with demand. In the beginning there was support from all over the world. Resources and aid poured in from the United Kingdom, France, Germany and even Russia. The majority of the funds were spent on rescue initiatives and food. The blast all but destroyed Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Montana and almost all of the rest of the country was covered in Ash within hours, killing crops everywhere. Soon after the livestock followed. It had been almost six months since the events and the temperature globally had dropped nearly eight degrees from average.
By Leo Hojo6 years ago in Futurism
Bitcoin - The Alien Technology
It was a warm afternoon at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Lexi Parker, a freshman studying liberal arts, was hard at work doing her homework at Sinclair Library. Lexi was glad that the sun was finally setting, as she was sweating since Sinclair library was an open-door library that didn’t have air conditioning. Lexi was wearing a light green tank-top and denim shorts, yet she still felt uncomfortably hot sitting in the humid library.
By J.J.K. Siu6 years ago in Futurism
The Great Reset
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed. -Ayn Rand
By Banning Lary6 years ago in Futurism
THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL PROBABILITY
As a species, we can no longer believe that humans are the center of the universe. Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is just one galaxy of a couple other trillion galaxies in the “observable universe” – which is only the region of universe that can be observed from Earth. There are more than 2,500 other solar systems (stars with orbiting planets) in our galaxy that we have found so far. Mathematically speaking, if one planet in a solar system is home to an extraterrestrial species, that would equate to 2,500 other species of beings that share our same galaxy alone – now multiply that by a trillion. It would be naïve, and dangerous, for us to continue believing no other life exist in the universe besides our own. It would also be naïve, and dangerous, for us to believe the intelligence communities of Earth have nothing to hide.
By Kurt Cramer6 years ago in Futurism
OPERATION PRATO
In late 1977, in the Brazilian rainforests around the town of Colares, a mass hunt for people began that lasted for months. Hundreds of people were injured by mysterious wounds and thousands of people began to panic, forcing the Brazilian government to launch one of the largest military operations.
By Haris Hadzic6 years ago in Futurism
The time is coming to disclose the reality of ET life
Years ago while promoting my book The Terminal in Austin, Texas I met a man named Stan Romanek. Stan calmly introduced himself to me, and asked if I had a few moments to speak after the event. I decided that I did, and what he proceeded to tell me that afternoon was shocking. Stan claimed that since seeing a UFO years earlier, he was literally stalked by beings from another world. His entire life was dotted with strange experiences, ufo sightings, and evenings of being whisked away to, well somewhere other than Earth. Everywhere Stan went, it seemed strange objects followed. Several of Stan’s claims were extraordinary. One, that alien beings repaired a bad knee, and the other that alien beings downloaded advanced physics data into Stan’s brain.
By Jeremy Gosnell6 years ago in Futurism
My Alien Teacher
Colton, Wyoming wasn't much of a town. It was more like a coal-mining village that got lucky enough for a supermarket to be built. Because of that market popularity in the low populated, mountainous area, the small town became a slightly larger town as people from all over settled in and moved in for sheer convenience.
By moonlightknight the first6 years ago in Futurism
You Live Where?
"I am so embarrassed, here we are having a lovely First Contact conversation with some of the most fascinating visitors we've ever had, now all of a sudden a single sentence is nonsensical. I sincerely apologize, I suspect our translator is severely malfunctioning. Give me just a moment, I’ll consult with my communication aide.” The ambassador scuttled away to the edge of the consultation chamber, directly in front of the panoramic view of low-TRAPPIST-1j orbit.
By S Magee6 years ago in Futurism
Is Alien life based on CARBON Only?
Aliens are considered as hypothetical or fictional being from another world. Researchers are hunting for the biochemistry, life forms, habitation and appearance of aliens as how they look like? As far is known, the living organisms, currently known are made up of carbon compounds for basic structural and metabolic functions, water as a solvent, and DNA or RNA to define and control their form. So if extraterrestrial life exists, it maybe chemically similar though probably could be having different chemistries. In recent searches, silicon has been discussed to a great extent as an alternative to carbon. Silicon being of same group and being tetravalent is making researchers curious to unleash the mysteries as if it could become a backbone for living beings or not. And silicon is foraged by researchers as if a human can coax life to build bonds between silicon and carbon then nature can do it too for extraterrestrial life. Why is silicon an alternative? Like carbon, silicon has similar chemical structure, it can form up to 4 bonds and is also one of the most common elements in the universe and makes up to 30% of the mass of earth’s crust, showing 150 times more abundance than carbon. Despites, earth is capable of chemically manipulating silicon . But the significance of silicon doesn’t ends up, much more resides into this anomalous element. Scientists are digging deep into it to know about the probabilities of silicon to be an element which could make life possible to some extent. According to new studies, if silicon-life would exist then the environment should be reducing where atmosphere would lack oxygen and this could likely be a reason for existence of Alien life on other planets due to which normal beings are unable to see or get connected to beings residing elsewhere in the universe. It has also been introduced that silicon could form stable and complex structures with vivid elements like germanium, carbon and so on in a very cold hydrogen-less solvent like liquid nitrogen. Did got have a choice in creating universe ? One of the most curious question, result of which is hunted by scientists, all over the world till date and silicon-based life could be an alternative, which would probably change the perspective of basic structure of life. Team of researchers worked on enzymes known as heme proteins, which has iron and is capable of catalyzing a wide variety of reactions and can normally shuttle electrons to other proteins in the microbes, besides that, heme proteins or cytochrome c could also generate low levels of organo-silicon compounds. In a recent experiment, few rotations of mutation in cytochrome c enzyme did great enhancement to the catalytic activity of enzyme and as a result of which it could generate up to 20 different organo-silicon compounds out of which 19 are new to science. An insight into extremophiles Extremophiles are the organisms with optimal growth in environment conditions considered extremely challenging for a carbon based life similar to the one existing on earth. Astrobiologists showed great interest and investigated extremophiles in order to map out the existence of extraterrestrial life in the universe. For example: deserts of Antarctica are exposed to UV radiation,low temperature, high salt concentration and low mineral concentration. This atmosphere is homologous to that of Mars, hence, microbial life at Antarctic desert could raise possibilities of occurrence of similar life at Martian surfaces as well. A microorganism Paracoccus denitrificans which was subjected to conditions of extreme gravity and was rotated in an ultracentrifuge at high speeds corresponding 403,627g, not only survived but also robust cellular growth under the conditions of hyperacceleration usually found in cosmic Surroundings. Similarly organisms producing silicon are observed to sustain extreme environments that is somehow impossible for carbon based lives. Existence of extraterrestrial life Which aspects of living systems are necessary for living systems everywhere is not known so far, even which of them are contingent means results of evolutionary accident or is merely required basically for existence of life is not known. Because of such dilemma, every single example of extraterrestrial life holds equal importance, no matter how big or small, how elementary in form of substance, would represent a basic and fundamental revolution to science. Life on earth consists basically of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, water as interaction medium but this doesn’t limits the wide range of life that could possibly survive elsewhere in the universe, as phosphorus as phosphate could bound to organic compounds, ammonia could act as liquid for interaction medium. Scientists are investigating in search of extraterrestrial life and one of the most prominent equation which probably highlights the existence of such beings is Drake’s equation which explains the reality of extraterrestrial life to some extent Drake's Equation
By Radioactron6 years ago in Futurism