DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY

COURSE WEB PAGES



ASTRONOMY 309L
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life


LINKS
Interstellar Travel


Status of Warp Drives
sober description of prospects

Why is it so hard?
good review of the difficulties

Based on ordinary physics
Descriptions of Orion, Daedalus, ...

Where are they?
Scientific American article

The Fermi Paradox
Summary of the Fermi argument

Wormholes
Fairly high level discussion of worm holes and difficulties,
has movies of falling into black holes and wormholes

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
Home page of the main debunkers of claims

Perry Klass Files
Klass has debunked many UFO claims



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31 July 2002
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