Tag Archives: Aliens
China’s giant radio telescope will start searching for aliens in September
Pentagon officially releases ‘UFO’ footage
Hitting the Books: We won’t colonize space without a Weyland-Yutani
Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and...
Octopuses Could Actually be Aliens on Earth
Octopuses are not your standard marine life forms. These eight-limbed animals can edit their own frames. The field of biology has found them to defy its conventional rules of classification.While...
Octopuses Could Actually be Aliens on Earth
Octopuses are not your standard marine life forms. These eight-limbed animals can edit their own frames. The field of biology has found them to defy its conventional rules of classification.While...
NASA wants to change the way we think about the habitable zone
"There are great possibilities in expanding the habitable zone beyond our traditional blinders on that vision where it's Earth or nothing."
That's Dr. Cynthia Phillips, a planetary geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She's currently worki...
Cryptocurrency mining is hampering the search for alien life
It turns out that high-end graphics cards are fantastic for mining non-bitcoin cryptocurrencies, which has led to a global shortage of GPUs. Gamers are livid at the lack of supply, especially as prices skyrocket on secondary markets. But they're not...
Someone Built a 15-Minute-long Alien Roller Coaster In a Sim Game
The original Alien movies were definitely rollercoaster rides in their own right, but now you can go for a ride on an amazing Alien themed thrill ride, courtesy of Hin Nya. He built the elaborate ride using amusement park construction and management simulator Planet Coaster.
It’s a 15-minute nightmare, but one that I would love to take a ride on. If a theme park built this for real they would make millions on ticket sales. It is visually amazing. The coaster is packed with cool and creepy imagery based on scenes from the movies. It definitely keeps you watching, because you want to see what comes next. The ride starts out slowly, but picks up speed, and eventually comes to a fitting climax featuring the Alien Queen. How else would you end it?
Theme park building games have come along way since the original Roller Coaster Tycoon, that’s for sure. You can build some really amazing coasters as you can see here. And the fact that it goes on for 15 minutes is just crazy. In real life, you would be begging to get off after about 5 minutes. All I can say is that the real world ride would have a lot of poop and pee in those seats. Some people just can’t hold it for that long. This is the coolest thing I’ve seen all day.
[via Eurogamer via Geekologie]
Researchers say aliens aren’t causing Tabby’s Star to dim after all
Tabby's Star, also known as KIC 8462852, is quite a mystery. Located about 1,280 light-years from Earth, the star puts on an interesting light show every now and then, dimming and brightening at unpredictable times. While many theories have been put...