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If there really is life elsewhere in the universe, what are the odds of finding it in our lifetime--or even our children's? Hunting for extraterrestrials, smart or otherwise, requires a lot of faith. You have to believe that conditions for life (liquid water, mild temperatures, protection from lethal...
For years Congress funded various SETI efforts--until the political stigma of paying for the quest for "little green men," as cynics like to call them, scuttled federal funding in 1993. Nonetheless, NASA continues the search for unearthly life, even if it's only for little green bugs, under the...
What to do if an Earth-bound comet or asteroid is discovered? Early detection, preferably many years in advance, would enable us to send out exploratory spacecraft to determine the nature of the interloper, much like the spacecraft near's current investigation of the asteroid Eros. Scientists at the Los...
Well, not to worry. As seductive as such extrapolations may be, they overlook what we know about how evolution works. In particular, they buy into the idea that evolution consists of a sort of generation-by-generation fine-tuning in each population as time passes. Under the benign guidance of...
HOFFMAN: Yes, but who is to say that all these scientific theories won't ultimately be replaced by ones with greater explanatory power? Galileo and Newton thought their laws of motion were the cat's pajamas, explaining everything under the sun and many things beyond, but 2 1/2 centuries later...