Scientists have some ideas about why we haven’t found aliens yet. They think there are two possibilities: either there’s a lot of life in the Universe, or almost none at all. A study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology gives some reasons for this mystery. Scientists searching for aliens believe that there should be many advanced civilizations out there besides ours. They used math and logic, based on the work of John Haldane, to explain why we haven’t found any extraterrestrial civilizations yet. Imagine a group of planets like Earth. You’d expect life to appear on all of them or none of them. There’s no clear reason why only half of these planets would have life. This idea can be shown on a U-shaped graph: on one side, there’s a high chance that no planets have life, and on the other, a high chance that many do. In the middle, there’s a low chance that only some planets have life. The two lines of the U-shaped curve correspond to either no life on any planet, or life on a small number of planets, and life on a large number of planets. Between the lines is the so-called valley, which corresponds to low probability and represents half of the planets with life. (Image credit: David Kipping/Geraint Lewis) The Drake Equation: What Is It? Scientists used Haldane’s logic to change the famous Drake equation. Astronomer Frank Drake made this equation to guess how many alien civilizations might be in the Milky Way. The Drake equation looks like this: N = R* x fp x ne x fl x fi x fc x L N is the number of civilizations. R* is the rate of star formation. fp is the number of stars with planets. ne is the number of planets that could support life. fl is the number of planets where life actually develops. fi is the number of planets where intelligent life develops. fc is the number of planets where intelligent life exists and tries to communicate. L is how long these civilizations last. Astronomers know a lot about star formation and how many stars have planets, but they’re less sure about the number of planets that could support life. The rest of the equation is still a mystery, so scientists have to guess. The study’s authors say the first six parts of the Drake equation talk about how alien civilizations might be born. The last part, L, talks about when these civilizations might disappear. A New Formula for Counting Alien Civilizations By splitting up the parts of the Drake equation, scientists found a simpler way to look at it: the average number of alien civilizations in the galaxy equals the rate at which they are born multiplied by the rate at which they die. This means scientists don’t need to worry too much about the unknown parts of the Drake equation. They also added a new idea called the population fraction, F. A high F, close to 1, would mean almost every planet has life. A low F, close to 0, would mean very few or no planets have life. The problem is that, based on what scientists have seen, F is probably not close to 1. If it were, we would’ve already found aliens building things or sending radio signals into space. This means that if we’re not alone in the Universe, F might be closer to 0.5, which puts us in the unlikely part of the U-shaped graph. This suggests that intelligent life is rare in the Universe. Scientists believe that if alien civilizations ever existed in the Milky Way, they could have spread across the galaxy in 10-100 million years. Even if they disappeared, we should still find evidence of their existence. Since we haven’t found anything, it seems like alien civilizations are rare and don’t last long. If Aliens Do Exist, Why Haven’t We Found Them? The authors also suggest that if we ignore the lack of evidence, the Drake equation shows that the Universe might be full of life or almost empty. If the Universe is full of life, F would be close to 1, and this could still be possible under certain conditions. Maybe alien civilizations stay in their own part of space, and our solar system isn’t a place they visit. Maybe traveling between stars is too hard, or they just don’t need to do it. It’s also possible that while there’s a lot of complex life in the Universe, there are very few technologically advanced civilizations, or it takes a long time for them to develop. There’s even a chance that the birth and death rates of alien civilizations haven’t balanced out yet, so we might still have time to find them. But, considering how old the Universe is, this seems unlikely. The post Where are all the intelligent aliens: scientists have found the answer appeared first on Anomalien.com.

New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman has spilled much ink over the last year fawning over President Joe Biden's blazing jobs market, and now here comes the boomerang.  In light of the latest bad news that the government vastly overestimated job growth — by a whopping 818,000 jobs —  Krugman the blowhard lost all his air.  That 818,000 figure is equal to about 30 percent of the jobs growth for the 12-month period ending in March 2024 and represents the largest revision in 15 years. Yet Krugman, during that twelve-month period, was caught up in his own self-medicated political high on how Biden was supposedly “presiding over the best job market America has seen in a generation — specifically since the boom of the late Clinton years” in an April 2023 op-ed. But that’s not the first time he hung himself out to dry like this. Just a few months later, in July 2023, Krugman again praised Biden for “arguably creating the best job market in a generation.”  Heritage Public Finance Economist EJ Antoni noted in an Aug. 21 statement on the massive jobs revision that “[t]he labor market is nowhere near as strong as is being portrayed.” In fact, Antoni warned, “Today’s negative benchmark is the second largest in history after 2009, when the labor market was bottoming out in the Great Recession.” Talk about Krugman’s blatherings aging like a fine, smelly cheese. Krugman always seems to find some way to make himself look even more ridiculous than he already does. In 2022, MRC Business analyzed how Krugman's three 2021 rules for Bidenomics ended up self-destructing a year later as the nation grappled with a mind-numbing inflation crisis brought on by Biden and the Federal Reserve’s asinine spending policies. The bad humor in each of Krugman’s so-called “rules” that he drafted in January 2021 speak for themselves: “Rule #1: Don’t doubt the power of government to help.” “Rule #2: Don’t obsess about debt.” “Rule #3: Don’t worry about inflation.” No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you. The “rules” comprise the summation of what Krugman considered to be good economics prior to the chaos Americans suffered the past couple of years. Moreover, Krugman’s tally of major misses is occurring right in the middle of his ridiculous habit of looking down his nose and condescending to the struggling American plebeian seeing the Biden economy for the disaster that it’s been. It’s like watching a bad sitcom stuck in a marathon. Krugman’s obsession with the Biden jobs market that ended up eventually getting nuked to smithereens is just the latest episode. As National Review political correspondent Jim Geraghty pointed out, the latest jaw-dropping jobs revision showed that one of the “dominant narratives in economic reporting” that snake oil salesmen like Krugman helped peddled for the past year — “‘the economy is doing gangbusters with robust job creation, so why are Americans so gloomy about the economy?’ — was, at minimum, flawed.” Readers should view Krugman’s words like they would inflation: Too many godawful opinions chasing too few realities.  Conservatives are under attack. Contact The New York Times at 1 (800) 698-4637 and demand it distance itself from Krugman’s terrible economic takes.   

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I use Street View all the time in Google Maps to quickly check out new destinations. It gives me an idea of the surroundings and lets me pick up a few visual cues before I actually visit that area. Street View is easily one of the best features in Google Maps, and Google updates it with new imagery all the time. It turns out that thieves might be using the same free Google Maps resource to scout and plan robberies. They might look for entryways, neighborhood lighting, surveillance cams, and anything else to help them get into your home as quickly as possible. Even if the images aren't that new, they could be enough to give the thieves an edge. That's why it might be a good idea to blur your house in Google Maps, so those visual cues aren't available to people with nefarious intentions. Continue reading... The post How to blur your house in Google Maps so thieves can’t plan break-ins appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: Pixel 9 preorder offers, $400 off Narwal Freo X Ultra, $500 off Sony OLED TV, more Today’s deals: $20 Amazon credit, $299 Apple Watch Series 9, $20 Blink Mini cam, Beats x Kardashian, more Amazon gift card deals, offers & coupons 2024: Get $525+ free Today’s deals: $699 Apple Watch Ultra 2, self-bagging trash can, $349 Dyson V8 Plus vacuum, more

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