Life on Earth is a sketchy guide to an Alien Civilization

Life on Earth is a sketchy guide to an Alien Civilization

You might imagine that in the midst of a global pandemic and all of its social and economic fallout that our minds would be laser-focused on immediate, Earthly woes. But apparently not entirely. A case in point is the recent virus-like spread of news headlines to the effect that there should be “at least 36 alien civilizations” in our galaxy. Not ten, not a thousand, or a billion, but 36. There you have it, three dozen other sets of intelligent life dotting our cosmic neighborhood, so stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

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What did Carl Sagan mean when he said "The cosmos is within us"?

What did Carl Sagan mean when he said “The cosmos is within us”?

I have read the 2009 fifth edition of Cosmos, one of Carl Sagan’s most important works, which is one of the few popular science books to enter the worldwide bestseller list. The book, which was first published in the United States in 1980 is a book of Sagan’s documentary series of the same name.

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Have we really been to the Moon, or have we been deceived?

Have we really been to the Moon, or have we been deceived?

It has been 53 years since that first step, one small step for Neil Armstrong and one big step for humanity. What happened before the trip to the Moon, which is the springboard in the space adventure of mankind? Who proved that the moon has actually been visited, and when? Why couldn’t we be without the moon? Why weren’t humans sent to the Moon after 1972?

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