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Finding life on other planets (Aliens!) is a tantalising prospect that occupies our daydreams. And yet with the constant onslaught of new technology are we fast approaching a time when it could become a reality? To humans, the idea of being alone in a Universe at least 10 to 13 billion light years across is disconcerting. The philosophical ramifications of being alone in such an overwhelming expanse of spacetime cannot be overstated. Given everything we know about the current rate of star and planetary formation, however, it would seem illogical that we should be the only sentient beings in the Universe. And given what we do know about the structure of life here on Earth and of molecules found thus far in the interstellar medium, it would appear that carbon could be the key to life's development anywhere in the Universe. While we can only continue to speculate about the extraterrestrial development of life and intelligence, we do know that carbon production is based on the rate of star formation. Estimates by the Hubble Space Telescope strongly suggest that carbon production peaked almost 7 billion years ago. Given the time span necessary for biological evolution as we know it, some theorists now believe that it is highly unlikely that the Universe could have seen the first carbon-based intelligent life any sooner than 3 billion years ago, or when the Universe was already more than 10 billion years old. In other words, the evolution of extraterrestrial intelligent life could be a very "recent" cosmic phenomenon. In fact, as Mario Livio from the Space Telescope Science Institute and Charles Lineweaver from the University of New South Wales in Sydney have both pointed out, the Universe may only just be awakening to an epoch of intelligent life. As Lineweaver has noted, at this stage in our own development, it is impossible to know whether we have come late or early to the cosmic party, but in the long history of our Universe, we might be relative newcomers.
If there are extraterrestrial civilizations capable of communicating as we do, shouldn't it follow that the same basic physics also held for their evolution? Life as we know it, has its best chance of developing on an Earth-like, fast-rotating planet in orbit around a Sun-like star, which has a hydrogen-burning phase that would provide a stable environment for life to evolve. And even with those parameters in place, ETs would likely emerge only after their home world had developed some sort of genetic code. They would also have to become cognizant enough to communicate with each other. Yet in order to communicate over interstellar distances, extraterrestrials would first have to overcome the gravity of their own planet. In order to communicate with us, as Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute frequently points out, they would have to develop the dexterity to build technology and telescopes.
If they chose radio, they could easily overcome the universal cacophony of background noise in the electromagnetic microwave region (1,000 to 100,000 megahertz). Just above the terrestrial TV and FM bands, it is relatively quiet. There, only a trace of background radiation from the Big Bang remains. (This is an effect anyone can hear in the form of soft constant static when flipping the dials on an FM radio.) However, the pursuit of ET in the radio spectrum has a short history. Although decades, even centuries earlier, there were many ideas about how to signal or find extraterrestrial civilizations, the genesis of modern SETI really began only some 40 years ago.
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View Large On Black - Well... It certainly looked like an alien the first time I saw one last week! It's called an "Ambush Bug" and it's not even a half inch long.
From a couple sources on the web...
These stealthy critters sit very still on or near flowers, their superb camouflage allowing them to remain undetected while an unwitting butterfly or other unfortunate happens by to gather nectar. They then seize their prey using front legs adapted for the task - these legs resemble the front legs of the praying mantis. It is a ferocious bug indeed that takes prey 10 times its own size.
The mouth of this bug as with the assassin bug (a close cousin) is shaped like a spike that is plunged into the body of the prey it catches. The "proboscis" is used to jab the victim. The saliva then dissolves the insides of the insect it has caught. Once it is turned to liquid, this is sucked from the insect much like we might use a straw. The bug's saliva is able to paralyze the food prey so the ambush bug can feed without having to hold tightly to its dinner.
Canon 5D MkII, Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro, ISO 1600, 1/250 @ f/9, Natural light, Hand held
You can see the left leg of the Ambush Bug holding the head of its victim while it inserts it's proboscis to extract the dissolved, insect milk shake! Yummmmm....
The night before this image was taken we took this little beauty inside and photographed it with my bud's MP-E 65 and strobes, with the camera on a tripod. After our little "Studio Session" we put the bug and the flower she was sitting on back in the same spot. I checked on her several times over the next 24 hours and she hadn't moved 4 inches. On one of those occasions she had caught, and was feeding on this fly.
Very cool to find these tiny little dramas playing out under our feet!
Alien concept art for the animatronics in the short "Bare hands".
Official Facebook page of the short "Bare hands": www.facebook.com/pages/Bare-Hands-Nude-Mani-Short-Film/16...
Help us building the alien animatronics for this project by funding the short film or more simply by clicking "like" or "tweet" on this link:
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Did you see the green light in the cockpit. I always know. Airbus hires Aliens for there test flights ;-)
I think the green light comes from the head up display. What are you thinking?
Believe it or not you're looking at a potato, we had a few of them in a basket and forgot all about them, we wanted to use them today and were shocked to see these "aliens" of them.
(Taken with 105mm)
Variation of a text-prompt generation in AI Deep Dream. The text contained the words ALIEN and GIGER.
The option of Text Prompt is a new feature on Deep Dream.
it was worth a try - but a previously created image on Night Cafe marginally improved with better definition, but fewer details.
Some video fun with a pattipan squash. Very spur of the moment, as I had to cook dinner right after i was finished with the squash.
I do miss my skateboarding days.
These are old images taken probably in 2009 when I still have my old Fujifilm camera.
Due to licensing issues with Sigourney Weaver’s likeness rights, we were unable to use Weaver’s portrait for Ripley in the Power Loader Diorama. This was, of course, disappointing to us, but we feel we managed to create a youthful portrait that best captures the facial emotion of the female lead battling the universe’s top adversary, the Queen Alien. The real star of this project, however, is the Power Loader itself. The proximity display scene that the loader and Queen Alien create is the statement of machine VS biological menace, a titanic battle that is ongoing and extremely relevant. This struggle is one that is ever-present and will continue to be so, and these two dioramas together really capture that clash. We’re really proud of this composition and all the hard work done literally by a host of developers from all points on the globe, and we think that collectors will really appreciate the dynamic interaction of these two dioramas.