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Human radio signals sent to spacecraft near Mars (lower left) and other planets spill over. An alien intelligence could detect this during planetary alignments, suggesting a new way to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Credit: Zayna Sheikh, CC BY-SA A new SETI methodology focuses on detecting the “spillover” from directed interstellar communications, mirroring how we communicate with our own spacecraft, rather than relying on broad, speculative searches. This approach leverages the predictable alignment of transmissions within a planetary system’s orbital plane, estimating a 77% chance of detecting a similar civilization’s signal during Earth-Mars alignments. The study calculates a detection limit of…

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Washington State Ranks Near The Top For UFO Sightings In The U.S.If you’re looking to get your scared on this Halloween and unidentified flying objects piloted by strange beings from another world are your choice for getting super spooked, a new survey has found that you may just be living in a prime location to be frightened on a lot more days than just All Hallow’s Eve.The online gambling comparison service, Casino Alpha, looked at data from the National UFO Reporting Center by analyzing all reported sightings of UFOs (or UAPs as their also becoming commonly called) by state. They…

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One thing about 3I/ATLAS is for certain: It’s definitely not from Earth’s solar system.But what exactly is the intriguing interstellar object discovered speeding through our cosmic neighborhood? Most astrophysicists widely agree 3I/ATLAS displays all the telltale signs of an icy comet.Now, a trio of researchers led by Avi Loeb, a controversial astrophysicist from Harvard University, are positing a very different theory: What if 3I/ATLAS isn’t just some random space rock that arrived in our solar system by happenstance but an intelligently controlled alien spacecraft?Even the authors of the research paper positing the wild idea aren’t fully sold on it, but…

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Alien: Earth Episode 6, “The Fly,” provided the series’s worst and scariest moment, where horror was created not by brutality but by an accident! The show took its audience by surprise with Tootles (Isaac), a hybrid kid, and left the creator of the series, Noah Hawley, to justify why the scene was “not by design an evil creature.” Instead, the eerie scene was to emphasize the randomness of peril and vulnerability of so-called immortal hybrids. According to Decider, Hawley explains that, “I sat down and I wrote what is probably the most disturbing scene that people will see on on…

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Hideo Shimizu L visits the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2024. After a 79-year hiatus, Hideo Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, returned to China to acknowledge the atrocities committed by the invading Japanese forces and to offer sincere repentance and apologies to the victims. Wang Jianwei/Xinhua via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Wang Jianwei/Xinhua via Getty Images TOKYO — As Japan’s defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th…

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In a recent article published in Animal Sentience (the flagship journal for animal consciousness) by Bryce Huebner and myself, we argue that recent research on animal consciousness suffers from a line-drawing paradigm that seeks to draw a line in the sand of which animals are sentient and those that aren’t and can thus not be part of our moral community. The article is titled “Drawing the boundaries of animal sentience,” (hence the title of this post), and tries to replace this paradigm: Are bees conscious? Source: Photo by Lisa Fotios from Pexels Here we draw on a letter sent by…

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If an extraterrestrial intelligence were looking for signs of human communications, when and where should they look? In a new study, researchers at Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California analyzed when and where human deep space transmissions would be most detectable by an observer outside our solar system and suggest that the patterns they see could be used to guide our own search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). “Humans are predominantly communicating with the spacecraft and probes we have sent to study other planets like Mars,” said Pinchen Fan, graduate student in astronomy and astrophysics in the…

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Watch ‘Westworld’ on JioHotstar What’s the story Westworld, a fan-favorite TV series, goes deep into the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and what it means. The show features a futuristic theme park where AI-driven hosts engage with human guests, bringing up issues of consciousness, ethics, and technology. By doing this, Westworld gives glimpses into the possible future of AI and its effect on the world. Here’s what the series gets right about AI. Consciousness in artificial intelligence In Westworld, the AI hosts display a lot of consciousness-like qualities, making you wonder what it really means to be conscious. The show…

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