Is Anybody Out There? Detection Devices are in the Works for Rooting Out Extraterrestrial Life

ScienceNews ^ | 1/21/2006 | Christen Brownlee

[furball4paws]

For all you science and space buffs, engineers are making a whole new generation of gizmos designed to find extraterrestrial life. I look forward to success in my lifetime.

[furball4paws]

Pingy thingy for those curious characters.

[Riley]

For all you science and space buffs, engineers are making a whole new generation of gizmos designed to find extraterrestrial life.

A guestbook and pen on a very tall stand? :-P

[Emmet Fitzhume]

What a great way to spend money!!!

Surely the aliens will respond to this innovative idea!!!

(Sarcasm)

Some people watch way too many movies.

[PatrickHenry]

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[Dallas59]

"You gotta show me."

[southernerwithanattitude]

Or quite simply--God put living things on other planets just as he did here.

[txroadkill]

Oh sure, let's get their attention....

It's a cook book!!!

[furball4paws]

"Rummel says, "I have faith in a view of the universe that doesn't make us the only fluke""

This guy is rather, um, screwed up.

[djf]

I imagine there's half a dozen varieties of lichen we could launch to Mars.

Then, in 75 years, we could build condos.

[MaryFromMichigan]

Kill it.
Grill it.
ET- the other gray meat.

[southernerwithanattitude]

I love Ted!

[shekkian]

I don't think you're going to find anything.

[msnimje]

Wait a cotton pickin' minute!

You cannot SPY on these beings, it is a violation of their intergalactic Constitutional rights.

[RightWhale]

We are probably alone, within the Milky Way anyway. There is abundant life out there, but it is all microbes. So says Brownlee, lead scientist of the recently landed comet dust return mission, Stardust.

[furball4paws]

Some lichens could very well survive Mars, but their growth rates are so slow that you'd have to wait more than 75 years.

[djf]

Eventually, we gotta send the reindeer up there to eat all that stuff....

[ßuddaßudd]

I dont think we really want to know what is out there considering how far advanced we have not become. Sounds like trouble to me.

[NoClones]

"...life as we know it..."

That is such an interesting phrase. What would happen if something came along that was not 'life as we know it'?

[djf]

If the reindeer don't like it, we can always send North Koreans. They'll eat it.