All entries for Thursday 03 November 2005
November 03, 2005
Warwick researcher & Science Museum challenge TV & movies unscientific aliens
Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/NE1000000129137/
What would life on other planets look like? Forget little green men, alien life is likely to be completely unrecognizable. This week University of Warwick researcher Professor Ian Stewart travels to London's Science Museum's new Aliens exhibition and uses his visit to explain how horrendously unscientific many of film and television's depictions of aliens are, and to outline the latest real scientific thinking on the possibility of life on other planets and what it could look like.