Extraterrestrial skies

It’s around 4:00 in the morning. I’m in my pickup truck waiting patiently for the sun to come up. As I await for eventual sunlight, I look up into the sky and gaze at the magnificent Milky Way Galaxy. I’m just amazed at how incredible the night sky alone is. I occasionally see a shooting star, failing to remember to make a wish. As time passes by, I see that the stars are fading away, leaving me with no light to comfort me. With nothing visible to keep me thinking, I fall asleep. I’ve woken up…

Many skywatchers rate October as one of the year’s best observing months. The early sunsets mean that most of the summer’s stars linger in the west late into twilight. Waiting up only a few hours more brings many of winter’s best sights into view in the east, and it’s not too cold yet in the mid-northern latitudes. Even though the Autumn season is firmly in place, not all of the summer Milky Way has been lost. A short drive into the countryside away from city lights will reveal an impressive…

Jordan Johnson Mrs. Laird Composition 1 24 February 2015 Extraterrestrial Life The Extraterrestrial, beings that are said to be from another world. The galaxy that humanity lives in is said to be endless, with the vastness of space so grand that no man shall ever reach its end. What inhabits this vastness of space, humanity. However, there has been a long mention of life beside humanity. Space has a vast history filled with fact and fiction. The thought of beings beside humanity seems like…

Scientists may have created the first wormhole in a laboratory. This could have big implications on the space-time continuum. Will this lead to quantum leaps, or possible time travel? Or will NASA and SpaceX swoop in and use the wormhole to meet aliens in an unknown universe? All of the above sounds like a bunch of sci-fi lunacy. However, NASA and SpaceX are accomplishing big things lately. So using a laboratory-developed wormhole to make contact with aliens may not be so odd. At least in the…

Is the universe barren or teeming with life? The observable universe; the part of the universe from where the light has had time to travel to earth is approximately 90 billion light years in diameter. There are 20 billion sun-like stars in just our Milky Way galaxy and recently we learned that planets are much more common than we thought. Those are the planets which are situated within the goldilocks zone of its home star, where the temperature is just right for water to remain in liquid state…

An Email to the Student Body: An Argument in Support of the Hypothetico-Deductive Method in “The Death of Science?” by Dr. Minos Talgia The major problem that Dr. Talgia discusses is the blind acceptance of the alien science that is proposed to replace the Hypothetico-Deductive method. Surely, the changes made to traditional scientific methods by the alien technology define a different form of advancement in the sciences, but should not replace the traditional methods of hypothesis and…

The book, The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey, begins with Cassie's Sullivan describing flashbacks in her life. She starts with small memories like her father gifting her a telescope and then shifts to thinking of how she wishes she was still the person she was before, the one that hadn't killed people, quite a dramatic change. So far in the book, I have read about the first three waves. The first wave destroys all the electronics on earth, the second destroys most of the world itself and the third one…

,First Essay Rough Draft Ever wondered what Science fiction was? Do you think about it when you see animations, futuristic things, places, and people? Well you’re correct, because Science fiction is exactly that, and there is even much more to it. The future, animate/inanimate objects, creatures, people, are all combined into a science fictional story. In other cases it can obviously be completely fake, but that is just the natural outlook and truth behind it. For example, the hit movie series…

A spaceship lands on Earth. Instead of dishing out a hackneyed “Take me to your leader,” however, the alien inside enters the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and requests to meet with a paleontologist. This peculiar scene marks the beginning of Robert J. Sawyer’s Calculating God, a novel that boldly discards science fiction’s stereotypical “alien narrative” by defying all preconceived notions. What if, asks Sawyer, there were different ways of understanding the universe? What if aliens landed on…

For years, people have stated that they have had encounters with the paranormal, but their story usually goes untold nationally. With the Montana UFO story, it was covered up by the media/government and only came to public awareness years later. This is the case with nearly all related incidents (since they are seen as threats to national security). The text includes an exert on the Malmstrom Air Force Base in which records of UFOs were noted. The Air Force did not believe the UFOs were…