real-aliens.com » Disclosure http://www.real-aliens.com five hundred billion galaxies, and we're all alone? Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:30:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Volcanoes Could Signal Presence of an Earth-like Planet http://www.real-aliens.com/volcanoes-could-signal-presence-of-an-earth-like-planet/ http://www.real-aliens.com/volcanoes-could-signal-presence-of-an-earth-like-planet/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:00:00 +0000 Tom McFay http://www.real-aliens.com/volcanoes-could-signal-presence-of-an-earth-like-planet/ With the Kepler mission in an all out search for rocky, Earth-like planets, astronomers are asking the next logical questions: Do any of those worlds have volcanoes? And if so, could we detect them? Work by theorists at the Harvard-Smithsonian…

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]]> http://www.real-aliens.com/image-of-the-day-the-weird-beauty-of-the-cone-nebula-weekend-feature/feed/ 0 From the X Files Dept: "The Pandora Hypothesis" http://www.real-aliens.com/from-the-x-files-dept-the-pandora-hypothesis/ http://www.real-aliens.com/from-the-x-files-dept-the-pandora-hypothesis/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:02:00 +0000 Tom McFay http://www.real-aliens.com/from-the-x-files-dept-the-pandora-hypothesis/ “If every habitable world in the universe is unique, and the precise chemical conditions of a planet helps shape the life that evolves there, then avatars could allow aliens to visit other worlds from the safety of their spaceship. Could…

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