Vice President Joe Biden congratulated the wrong man on being elected mayor of Boston and college football star Manti Te’o publicly mourned the death of a girlfriend who never was.
While U.S. headlines in 2013 were dominated by the Boston Marathon bamboos, Edward Snowden is leaking government secrets, and the disastrous rollout of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, the news also brought plenty to laugh about. Read the rest of this entry »
A very believable and compelling reason to believe that in time we will find that life can be, even in our own planetary system. Here are seven reasons why scientists believe that life certainly exists somewhere and just waiting for meeting with us. Maybe it will not be green-skinned ladies in flying saucers, but it will still be aliens.
1. Extremophiles on Earth
A key question is, can exist and develop life in worlds radically different from Earth. It seems the answer is yes, if we think of the fact that even on this planet, there are extremophiles, or organisms that can survive in the extreme conditions of heat, cold, exposure to toxic (to us), chemicals, and even in a vacuum. Read the rest of this entry »