Project Phoenix concentrated efforts on that component of the NASA SETI project known as the Targeted Search. Its strategy was to carefully examine the regions around 1,000 nearby Sun-like stars. The world's largest antennas were used, committing observing time for SETI.
Unlike many previous searches, Phoenix didn't scan the whole sky. Rather, it scrutinized the vicinities of nearby, sun-like stars. Such stars are most likely to host long-lived planets capable of supporting life. We naturally include stars that are known to have planets. Project Phoenix observed about 800 stars. All are within 200 light-years distance
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The 27th Annual Darwin Lecture at the University of Calgary brings Dr.
Daniel C. Dennett to give a talk, "The Evolution of Reasons" on Friday, February 10. Please consult the link below for details. There will also be a catered dinner following Dr. Dennett's lecture.
* * * Some Specifics:
Both the lecture and the dinner are open to anyone. The lecture is first come first served on the seating, and is free of charge (you cannot reserve a spot for the lecture). The dinner is $25 for U of C students,
$35 for non-students, and $45 for faculty. I will need the names of all people attending the dinner, along with their status (student, faculty, etc) and any dietary restrictions. I am in BI460 at noon on most days, if you would like to drop off money.
Calgary Eyeopener @CBCEyeopene Update for those who heard Daniel Dennett today - if you wanted to catch his talk at the UofC, it's been rescheduled to *tomorrow* evening.
Not really news, but is it just me or is Sirius (the star) really bright and, for lack of a better description, twinkly tonight. I know it's as bright as it gets, but I can see it over DT today from my place.
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Not really news, but is it just me or is Sirius (the star) really bright and, for lack of a better description, twinkly tonight. I know it's as bright as it gets, but I can see it over DT today from my place.
Venus is very bright in the SW this month, and Jupiter is quite bright too, higher in the south.
Sirius is the brightest star in our sky (other than the sun). "Twinkly" has to do with our atmospheric conditions.
Physicist Lawrence Krauss will be in Calgary on Wednesday and Thursday (Feb. 22 & 23). Note:
(1) February 22 - A Dr. Krauss Dinner at Old Spaghetti Factory. We will all be contributing to Dr. Krauss' dinner, so please budget accordingly. http://www.oldspaghettifactory.ca/me...202012%20D.pdf
Please RSVP (to Kris: 403-256-1574 or 403-804-4728 cell)
Thank you in advance for your prompt response. ASAP!
(2) February 23 - LAWRENCE KRAUSS Lecture
Professor Krauss, a theoretical physicist and author of the new
book: "A Universe From Nothing," will deliver an address on "Why
There is Something Rather than Nothing." This talk is
sponsored by the Centre for Inquiry - Calgary. More information appears at the link below: http://calgaryhumanist.ca/files/Krauss_Postcards_v2.pdf
British scientists have found that a species of flatworm can overcome the process of aging to become potentially immortal and say their work sheds light on possibilities of alleviating aging and age-related characteristics in human cells.
Virgin Galactic, an offshoot of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, expects to test fly its first spacecraft beyond the Earth's atmosphere this year, with commercial suborbital passenger service to follow in 2013 or 2014, company officials said on Monday.
Nearly 500 customers have signed up for rides on SpaceShipTwo, a six-passenger, two-pilot spaceship being built and tested by Scaled Composites, an aerospace company founded by aircraft designer Burt Rutan and now owned by Northrop Grumman.
The suborbital flights, which cost $200,000 per person, are designed to reach an altitude of about 109 km, giving fliers a few minutes to experience zero gravity and glimpse Earth set against the blackness of space.
This book is a look at how technology is rising to meet the challenges that humanity faces, and at an ever quickening pace.
In that TED talk, one of the author's reveals that Coca-Cola may soon deploy the slingshot device to numerous countries in the developing world. The gloomy predictions of tomorrow, like 'water-wars', are looking to be way off the mark.
